Sarah Shannon
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
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I used to be big into new atheism, right?
And that was a movement that was afflicted hugely by a sense within it that people were just smarter than Christians.
I see that tendency everywhere now, and I'm sure I'm prone to it as much as anybody.
So many social movements now were defined by a feeling of sort of about the kind of the people, the outside people that, you know, they're the kind of benighted heathens outside the golden circle.
Oh, I completely think that's true.
I remember having this conversation with a journalist.
There's a British journalist who died a couple of years ago called Christopher Booker.
And he became, in his later years, a climate change denialist.
And I asked someone who'd worked with him, you know, how did that happen?
He was so smart.
Like, how did he end up just spending the last 10 years of his life talking about the hockey stick graph and all the stuff we used to hear about before, you know, every summer scorched Texas and wildfires raged across the Midwest and people kind of went, no, I do think this is a bit weird now.
And this other journalist said, well, he was one of the, Christopher Booker was one of the original journalists involved in uncovering the thalidomide scandal, which was a huge medical scandal in the 1960s in Britain, where women were given a morning sickness drug and it led to limb deformities in their children.
And for a long time, the medical establishment denied this, covered it up.
And it took a really big investigation by the Sunday Times and others to bust this open and get people compensation.
And he said, essentially, that generation of journalists was ruined by it.
because they had seen this massive conspiracy where the establishment were lying to them and they were right.
And I think that's true.
My friend Sarah Dighton once said this about the Iraq war ruining the left, right?
Being everybody in the left who was like, the Iraq war was a very bad idea.
I think it's a foreign policy disaster, you know?
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