Honestly with Bari Weiss

Best podcast

I love Honestly! I appreciate the variety of guests and Bari’s willingness to ask tough questions. However, I wish she pushed back on guests’ claims more. For instance, to support his sweeping proposition that all of science is corrupt and too dogmatic, Peter Thiel claimed that people are “not allowed” to question whether methane is more of a warming gas than carbon dioxide. This is an absurd claim—scientists and climate advocates CONSTANTLY raise that methane causes more warming in the short-term than carbon dioxide (although it doesn’t stay in the environment for as long). If this fact is not communicated widely enough it is because the “natural” gas industry has a strong PR campaign to frame their product as less harmful than carbon; it is not because scientists are too dogmatic. Despite Thiel’s incorrect claim, Bari said nothing. I’m involved in climate spaces, so I had the knowledge to immediately know his claim was false. But this made me worry about how many of his other claims are based on untrue premises that I can’t fact check.

Somewhat entertaining at times, pretty biased in my opinion. 3-4 straight episodes of “what should the democrats do!?!?!”

This episode went off the deep end about half way through and the host did not reign it back in. Schools are certainly not packed full of therapists. Social emotional curriculum is not like group therapy. Any parent who is in conversation with their children and pays attention knows this. Social emotional learning teaches about treating others with respect and what it means to have character.