Citation Needed Podcast

This week’s episode of Citation Needed is available exclusively for our paying supporters. Every other episode of the show is free, so you can always try those first and see if you enjoy what we do—but if you want access to every episode (double the content), you’ll need to become a supporter. Your subscription helps us keep exposing the wildest corners of academia and ensures we can keep producin...

This week’s episode is free , but remember—we paywall every other episode . That means next week’s is for supporters only. If you want access to double the content and don’t want to miss out, become a paying subscriber. Your support helps us keep exposing the most unhinged corners of academia. This week, Colin is joined by Canadian writer Eva Kurilova to tackle one of the strangest academic papers...

This week’s episode of Citation Needed is for supporters only —but don’t worry, next week’s will be free. We alternate between free and paywalled episodes every week, so if you want a taste of what you’re missing, be sure to tune in next week or check out our previous free episodes. And if you enjoy this show, please consider becoming a supporter—it help… This is a free preview of a paid episode....

This week’s episode of Citation Needed is free to everyone ! Every other episode is for supporters only, so if you enjoy this one and want to tune in next week, be sure to subscribe. Your support helps us keep producing the show and exposing the ideological rot in academia. In our first segment , we dig into a brand-new paper on “ableism” by activist Alice Wong. Instead of research, the journal pu...

This episode is supporters only . We paywall every other episode, which means next week’s episode is free —a perfect way to sample the show and decide if you want to subscribe to receive double the content. Your support helps us keep producing this content. For our first segment, we cover the latest Gordon Guyatt scandal. The “father of evidence-based medicine” tries to paint the Society for Evide...

This episode is free! I (Colin) am flying solo this week—Brad is away on last-minute travel—but this episode will still cover two big stories. A reminder: we paywall every other episode, so when Brad returns next week, that one will be for supporters only . If you want access to next week’s show (and double our content every month), make sure to subscribe today! In the first segment , I break down...

This week’s episode is for supporters only —but you can gain access to it, along with every episode moving forward, by becoming a supporter of Citation Needed . Supporters get double the content and help us keep devoting our time to exposing the worst pseudoscience and cultural absurdities out there. This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.citationneededpodcast.com

This week’s episode is free , but remember—because we paywall every other episode, if you want access to next week’s episode , you’ll need to become a supporter. Being a supporter gives you twice the content and helps us devote our time to tackling these stories with the right mix of humor and serious analysis. In our first segment, we break down the controversy over the Minnesota Vikings adding t...

This episode is for supporters only. Every other episode of Citation Needed is free, so you can tune in next week for a free one—and if you enjoy it and want access to every episode each week (that’s double the content), please consider becoming a paying subscriber. Your support helps us devote time to digging into these papers, articles, and news items… This is a free preview of a paid episode. T...

This week’s episode is free! If you want access to every episode, please become a paying subscriber. Your support allows us to keep shining a light on the most absurd corners of academia. In our first segment, Colin takes us inside his new legal action against Cornell University for racial discrimination in hiring. He explains how newly uncovered internal emails reveal a secret search for a “diver...

In this supporter-only episode, we kick things off with a look at a sharp rebuttal by Jon Pike and Emma Hilton to a recent academic paper defending Caster Semenya’s eligibility to compete in the women’s category. We break down their clear, evidence-based response, which exposes the original paper’s scientific errors and ideological framing, and explains… This is a free preview of a paid episode. T...

New format alert! We’re changing how we monetize episodes. Instead of paywalling the second half of every show, we’re now paywalling every other episode in full . That means this week’s episode is completely free—but if you want access to any part of next week’s episode, you’ll need to become a supporter. In the first segment of this week’s episode, we break down the wild story of Aaron Barry, a w...

In the first (free) segment of this week’s episode of Citation Needed , we break down the University of Pennsylvania’s stunning Title IX reversal over Lia Thomas. After a federal investigation, UPenn will now bar male athletes from women’s sports, restore records to displaced female swimmers, and adopt biology-based sex definitions. But instead of report… This is a free preview of a paid episode....

On this week’s episode of Citation Needed , we cover the Trevor Project’s dark slide into promoting pseudoscientific gender ideology under the guise of helping distressed LGBTQ youth. Once a lifeline for bullied gay teens, the Trevor Project now pushes ideas like “sex is a spectrum” and gender ideology as fact, priming confused kids for medicalization in… This is a free preview of a paid episode....

For this week’s episode of Citation Needed , we begin with the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti , which upheld Tennessee’s law banning sex trait modification procedures for minors. Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued an emotional dissenting opinion, invoking the oft-repeated claim that these interventions are “lifesaving” and that denyi… This is a free preview of a paid episode....

In this episode of Citation Needed , we kick things off with the viral social media feud between Olympic legend Simone Biles and women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines over a male athlete playing on a girls' softball team. We cover the controversy, break down some of the science Biles ignored, and highlight the media’s double standards on the issue of male… This is a free preview of a paid episode....

Activists still—somehow—claim that males who identify as women have no physical edge over female athletes, despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary. In this episode, we break down those undeniable advantages as laid out in a new review paper in the Journal of Applied Physiology . Then, we dive into the bizarre and revealing case of Olympic gold meda… This is a free preview of a paid episode....

Advocates for so-called “gender affirming care” often point to the statistic that only 1% of people go on to regret their transition surgeries. But is that actually true? Subscribe now: https://www.citationneededpodcast.com/ This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.citationneededpodcast.com

More biology denial from activist scientists and bizarre erotica published in a peer-reviewed journal. We break it down in this episode of Citation Needed. Become a supporter: https://www.citationneededpodcast.com/ This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.citationneededpodcast.com

Woke ideology combined with Biden-era “DEI” regulations is turning academic archaeology into a farce. For more, become a subscriber: https://www.citationneededpodcast.com/ This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.citationneededpodcast.com

Today, we cover a bizarre paper, “Transfeminist pregnancy: reproductive speculation, genre, and desire” from a Yale PhD candidate who argues that pregnancy is a “political” and “aesthetic” experience that biological males can also participate in. Yes, seriously. We break down this bizarre paper in the latest episode of the Citation Needed podcast. Plus… This is a free preview of a paid episode. To...

Did you know glaciers and icebergs are feminist, human-like, and… sexy?! Those were the bizarre conclusions “researchers” reached in a now-infamous paper that we break down in this episode of the Citation Needed podcast. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.citationneededpodcast.com

How is this real!? A university literally gave this “gender fluid” therapist a PhD in Clinical Psychology even though she explicitly rejects... Clinical Psychology. Brad Polumbo & Colin Wright break it down in this episode of the Citation Needed podcast. Plus, in the subscribers-only part of the podcast, Brad & Colin debunk an insane NPR article pushing … This is a free preview of a paid episode....

Brad Polumbo & Colin Wright break down a truly wild bit of... erm, erotic, feminist "scholarship" in this episode of the Citation Needed podcast. Plus, after the paywall, they go over a study about “queer” tarott card reading and read a bizarre poem about transgender treatments that was published in a medical journal. Subscribe now and unlock the full show: https://www.citationneededpodcast.com/ T...

In this pilot episode of the Citation Needed podcast, Brad Polumbo and Colin Wright dive into two crazy, published, peer-reviewed papers. First, they analyze a bizarre paper where feminists married shrimp and passed it off as research. Then, they examine a less funny and more disturbing paper where one academic tried to argue that babies—yes, babies—are all “queer.” Let us know what you think of t...