# Peter Boghossian | The War on Science Interviews | Day 16

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Podcast: [The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-origins-podcast-with-lawrence-krauss-505968)
Published: 2025-08-09T00:58:00+00:00
Episode link: https://lawrencekrauss.substack.com/p/peter-boghossian-the-war-on-science
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## Resource

To celebrate the release on July 29th of The War on Science, we have recorded 20 podcast interviews with authors from the book. Starting on July 22nd, with Richard Dawkins, we will be releasing one interview per day. Interviewees in order, will be: Richard Dawkins July 23rd Niall Ferguson July 24th Nicholas Christakis July 25th Maarten Boudry July 26th Abigail Thompson July 27th John Armstrong July 28th Sally Satel – July 30 Elizabeth Weiss – July 31 Solveig Gold and Joshua Katz – August 1 Frances Widdowson – August 2 Carole Hooven – August 3 Janice Fiamengo – August 4 Geoff Horsman – August 5 Alessandro Strumia – August 6 Roger Cohen and Amy Wax – August 7 Peter Boghossian – August 8 Lauren Schwartz and Arthur Rousseau – August 9 Alex Byrne and Moti Gorin – August 10 Judith Suissa and Alice Sullivan – August 11 Karleen Gribble – August 12 Dorian Abbot – August 13 The topics these authors discuss range over ideas including the ideological corruption of science, historical examples of the demise of academia, free speech in academia, social justice activism replacing scholarship in many disciplines, disruptions of science from mathematics to medicine, cancel culture, the harm caused by DEI bureaucracies at universities, distortions of biology, disingenous and dangerous distortions of the distinctions between gender and sex in medicine, and false premises impacting on gender affirming care for minors, to, finally, a set of principles universities should adopt to recover from the current internal culture war. The dialogues are blunt, and provocative, and point out the negative effects that the current war on science going on within universities is having on the progress of science and scholarship in the west. We are hoping that the essays penned by this remarkable group of…

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