 Today, May 40 here, so I'm perching on the edge of a cliff, juggling two tones, trying to dial up the right content. Here we go, sex researcher Michael Bailey talking to Alex Gashuta. I mean, it's important even in the implications of protecting my children and, you know, the mother in your example's children. So, yeah, it's necessary. But like I said, I don't think everyone should be on this beat every day if possible. Thank you. Unlike some of the other issues we've been discussing, there is really no group who's advocating that pedophiles should be able to act on their desires, except for a small group of pedophiles themselves. Sure, you can find them and say there's nothing wrong with that, but I don't think that's even a slippery slope. Yeah. I mean, like I said, you know, I've, like myself and probably most of the people listening to this have not had enough contact with the advocacy and exactly happy subjects. But I think that... Looking forward to this. First, just a brief introduction. When I was in college, my roommate was a philosophy major, Arnie, and... So this is sex researcher Michael Bailey here talking about his four favorite subversive thinkers to recommend. He was very influential on my thinking. I often wanted to kill him. And it's because he was very good at challenging me, challenging my weeks up as a... And that makes people mad. And I think that that's a lot of what's going on in the culture. For us now is people getting mad because people are challenging them to think. And I think that philosophers, when they are doing the best kind of philosophy where they actually are bothering to learn about a topic and think hard about it, they can be very useful. So I'm going to recommend, and this is cheating, but four different philosophers, and I'll do it quickly. First is a guy named Michael Humer who has a sub-stack called Fake News in the U.S. A recent essay he wrote that I thought was really good. It's called Elon Musk is Better Than You, provocative title. Another one, can teaching the truth be racist also good? The Croatian philosopher, Nevin Cesarik, he is an older philosopher, I think he might be emeritus now, but he wrote a fantastic book called Making Sense of Parenthability about the IQ genetics literature. And I thought he did a great job dealing with a lot of obfuscation that both philosophers and academic experts engage in to have people avoid this topic. So I recommend his book. There's a young philosopher, I think he's really smart named Nathan Kofnes who is currently at Cambridge and we're hoping that he manages to have a career despite many attempts to cancel him and he's written about how we should study the most controversial topics and that's totally what I support. And finally, there's a guy named Alex Byrne at MIT, Alex's work has mostly been of the technical philosophy genre and I don't read much technical philosophy really, but I heard rumors that he's writing a book on gender and transgender. And I've heard rumors that it's excellent and very readable and really going to be like the best treatment of this domain. So that's it. Excellent. Yeah. Nathan Kofnes I want to have on the show hopefully soon. I'm aware of his work. Yeah. He's great. Yeah. I'm glad that you had so many good recommendations and so much insight on two and two things that we either tend to avoid or maybe we look at too intensely recently like the transsexual. Okay. That's Michael Bailey talking Alex Koshuta recommending several thinkers, one of them young Nathan Kofnes who is a professor at Cambridge University and so far resisting all attempts to cancel him.