{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Ffcb7d59f-5089-44ea-8b3e-df60758509c3","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Episode 88 \u2013 22 March 2017","description":"0:52 There is renewed discussion over S.18c. A plan to replace “insult, offend or humiliate” with “harass”.
\n10:11 Pakistan is not happy with the amount of blasphemy on Facebook and have asked Facebook for names and details of blaspheming Pakistanis.
\n11:43 The BBC asked what is the right punishment for blasphemy.
\n14:25 A Firis brochure for NSW listeners to distribute which explains rights regarding RI lessons. We should be telling RI horror stories.
\n17:36 The legal rights of rivers.
\n20:32 Flat earth basketballers in the NBA. It’s all funny until somebody gets hurt, and, we are being hurt. The recent devotion to cultural tolerance is opening the door to alternative facts.\u00a0Often, the very people who cheer journalists calling out Trump\u2019s falsehoods are unwilling to do the same when falsehoods are the product of cultures they find more sympathetic or less dangerous. We must maintain the value of objective truth.
\n30:57 The gay panic defence.
\n33:56 The hijab in Europe
\n36:17 King Salmon of Saudi Arabia visited Indonesia with 1000 helpers in his entourage.\u00a0King Salman is poised to increase Saudi influence in Indonesia exponentially. In one swoop Saudi investment in Indonesia has gone from $US900,000 last year to $US7 billion, with the Indonesia media reporting that another $US25 billion may be waiting in the wings.While the Saudis prepare to unload billions, our fiscal investment in our nearest neighbour hovers around $605 million in foreign aid, and Indonesia is not yet one of Australia’s top 10 trading partners.
\n41:12
\nGeoffrey Cohen, a professor of psychology at Stanford, has shown how motivated reasoning can drive even the opinions of engaged partisans. In 2003, when he was an assistant professor at Yale, Cohen asked a group of undergraduates, who had previously described their political views as either very liberal or very conservative, to participate in a test to study, they were told, their \u201cmemory of everyday current events.\u201d
\nThe students were shown two articles: one was a generic news story; the other described a proposed welfare policy. The first article was a decoy; it was the students\u2019 reactions to the second that interested Cohen. He was actually testing whether party identifications influence voters when they evaluate new policies. To find out, he produced multiple versions of the welfare article. Some students read about a program that was extremely generous\u2014more generous, in fact, than any welfare policy that has ever existed in the United States\u2014while others were presented with a very stingy proposal. But there was a twist: some versions of the article about the generous proposal portrayed it as being endorsed by Republican Party leaders; and some versions of the article about the meagre program described it as having Democratic support. The results showed that, \u201cfor both liberal and conservative participants, the effect of reference group information overrode that of policy content. If their party endorsed it, liberals supported even a harsh welfare program, and conservatives supported even a lavish one.\u201d
\nIn a subsequent study involving just self-described liberal students, Cohen gave half the group news stories that had accompanying Democratic endorsements and the other half news stories that did not. The students who didn\u2019t get the endorsements preferred a more generous program. When they did get the endorsements, they went with their party, even if this meant embracing a meaner option.
\n47:19
\nAre you a soldier or a scout? Your answer to this question, says decision-making expert Julia Galef, could determine how clearly you see the world.
\nImagine for a moment you\u2019re a soldier in the heat of battle \u2014 perhaps a Roman foot soldier, medieval archer or Zulu warrior. Regardless of your time and place, some things are probably constant. Your adrenaline is elevated,","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/085762e2-797c-4ef4-9b10-434ecde61c07/logo2018v2.jpg"}