Fruit of Eden

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Diverse conversations relating to the Fruit of Eden Substack, by Adam Rochussen. adam.rochussen.xyz

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  1. 5d ago

    Stop defending democracy

    This banger essay by Adam Rochussen can be read along with footnotes and figures on adam.rochussen.xyz Please enjoy this audio voiceover by the author. Get full access to Fruit of Eden at adam.rochussen.xyz/subscribe

    21 min

  2. May 1

    Science is a blue-collar job. The hiring process should reflect this.

    This essay was written for the Astera Institute’s “Identifying Systemic Bottlenecks to Science” essay competition. Get full access to Fruit of Eden at adam.rochussen.xyz/subscribe

    11 min

  3. Apr 12

    Algorithms: the peace we lost, the truth we gained

    This is an article voiceover read by the author, Adam Rochussen. To read the essay and view footnotes, charts, and figures, go to adam.rochussen.xyz Get full access to Fruit of Eden at adam.rochussen.xyz/subscribe

    19 min

  4. Mar 17

    Never trust The Science™

    In this audio essay, Adam discusses the many ways in which science gets biased. He then talks in detail about a recent study which claimed to show that vegetarian diets protected against cancer. The actual data tell a different story ...The original essay can be found at adam.rochussen.xyz Get full access to Fruit of Eden at adam.rochussen.xyz/subscribe

    14 min

  5. Jan 25

    Broken Academe

    I recently had the great pleasure of chatting with Dayne Rathbone, a product researcher at Substack, about issues in academia and academic publishing, and how Substack might be able to offer a solution. (As you’ll hear, we originally wanted to tackle the topic of free will too, prompted by an essay I wrote a while ago now, but time got the better of us…) We begin by discussing how PhDs are actually rather easy unless the student or supervisor makes it otherwise. Universities are financially incentivised to expand the number of students ad infinitum, leading to a lowering of standards at both admission and completion of degrees—including the supposedly elite PhD degree. Our conversation then turns from skewed financial incentives at universities to skewed financial incentives at academic journals. We discuss what journals get right and wrong, and how they exploit scientists and, ultimately, rip off tax payers. Finally, we touch on incentives that motivate scientists, and how Substack can leverage these to usurp traditional academic journals. Dayne has been working on a pilot at Substack to index scholarly Substack articles with digital object identifiers and to have them indexed with Europe PMC and, hopefully, Google Scholar. My scholarly review on protein intake is part of this initial pilot. If you find this discussion interesting and haven’t read my previous posts on these topics, you can find them here: If you enjoy the conversation, I would appreciate you letting me know by way of liking it or sharing it with friends. This livestream/podcast was Dayne’s idea, but Substack has extremely an frictionless livestreaming interface, so I wouldn’t be averse to recording more interesting conversations in future if there is appetite for it—of course in addition to my written content. If you are not subscribed, please do so below! (completely free, obviously) Get full access to Fruit of Eden at adam.rochussen.xyz/subscribe

    43 min
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