Citation Needed Podcast
Episodes
Woke “scholars” say childhood sexual innocence is a “colonial fiction” that must be dismantled
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode of Citation Needed is available exclusively for our paying supporters. Every other episode of the show is free, so you can alway...
What ’puppygirls‘ know (and we wish we didn’t), with Eva Kurilova
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode is free, but remember—we paywall every other episode. That means next week’s is for supporters only. If you want access to d...
Decolonizing and indigenizing nursing with Amy Hamm
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode of Citation Needed is for supporters only—but don’t worry, next week’s will be free. We alternate between free and paywall...
A new paper by a ‘nonspeaking cyborg kraken’ says society is oppressive because most people speak and hear
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode of Citation Needed is free to everyone! Every other episode is for supporters only, so if you enjoy this one and want to tune in...
‘Queer’ researcher says keeping records of child abuse is ‘settler-colonial violence’
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is supporters only. We paywall every other episode, which means next week’s episode is free—a perfect way to sample the show and deci...
This sociologist says “reverse discrimination” is a paranoid myth. Here’s why he’s wrong.
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is free! I (Colin) am flying solo this week—Brad is away on last-minute travel—but this episode will still cover two big stories.A re...
Cancer drugs and psychedelics convinced this man he’s a nonbinary grandmother named Leela
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode is for supporters only—but you can gain access to it, along with every episode moving forward, by becoming a supporter of Cita...
Top journal Nature wants to decolonize science and replace it with ‘Indigenous’ mysticism
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode is free, but remember—because we paywall every other episode, if you want access to next week’s episode, you’ll need to be...
New Fat Studies ‘research’ claims Ozempic is fueling oppression and fat genocide
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is for supporters only. Every other episode of Citation Needed is free, so you can tune in next week for a free one—and if you enjoy it...
The paper “Black Anality” is what happens when academia disappears up its own…
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode is free! If you want access to every episode, please become a paying subscriber. Your support allows us to keep shining a light ...
This ‘scholar’ believes fairy tales need to be queered to resist oppression and dismantle whiteness
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this supporter-only episode, we kick things off with a look at a sharp rebuttal by Jon Pike and Emma Hilton to a recent academic paper defending Ca...
This man lied about his identity and got awards for his deliberately terrible poems
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New format alert! We’re changing how we monetize episodes. Instead of paywalling the second half of every show, we’re now paywalling every other e...
Activist researchers are scientifically testing how to indoctrinate your kids into gender ideology
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the first (free) segment of this week’s episode of Citation Needed, we break down the University of Pennsylvania’s stunning Title IX reversal o...
The dark pseudoscience the Trevor Project uses to target vulnerable teens
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Citation Needed, we cover the Trevor Project’s dark slide into promoting pseudoscientific gender ideology under the guis...
Justice Sotomayor’s emotional dissent was fueled by the trans ‘suicide myth.’ So we debunk it.
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For this week’s episode of Citation Needed, we begin with the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti, which upheld Tennessee’s...
A new paper titled "My pronouns are f*ck ICE" is beyond parody
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Citation Needed, we kick things off with the viral social media feud between Olympic legend Simone Biles and women’s sports advoc...
Male or female? Separating fact from fiction about Olympic boxer Imane Khelif
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Activists still—somehow—claim that males who identify as women have no physical edge over female athletes, despite a mountain of evidence to the c...
Debunking the junk science behind the “only 1% regret gender surgeries” myth
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Advocates for so-called “gender affirming care” often point to the statistic that only 1% of people go on to regret their transition surgeries. Bu...
"Biology is not binary!": Activists push pseudoscience after bombshell UK Supreme Court ruling
24 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More biology denial from activist scientists and bizarre erotica published in a peer-reviewed journal. We break it down in this episode of Citation Ne...
How DEI & Native American politics are turning archeology into a farce
17 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Woke ideology combined with Biden-era “DEI” regulations is turning academic archaeology into a farce. For more, become a subscriber: https://www.c...
Yale researcher publishes bizarre paper claiming trans women (males) can get pregnant
11 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we cover a bizarre paper, “Transfeminist pregnancy: reproductive speculation, genre, and desire” from a Yale PhD candidate who argues that ...
This infamous feminist "research" is actually unhinged (and creepy!)
04 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know glaciers and icebergs are feminist, human-like, and… sexy?! Those were the bizarre conclusions “researchers” reached in a now-infam...
This “gender fluid” therapist’s PhD “research” is beyond parody...
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How is this real!? A university literally gave this “gender fluid” therapist a PhD in Clinical Psychology even though she explicitly rejects... Cl...
Feminist scholar publishes her "cripple porn" as peer-reviewed "research"
19 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Polumbo & Colin Wright break down a truly wild bit of... erm, erotic, feminist "scholarship" in this episode of the Citation Needed podcast. Plus...
Feminists who married shrimp & an academic who says all babies are “queer”
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this pilot episode of the Citation Needed podcast, Brad Polumbo and Colin Wright dive into two crazy, published, peer-reviewed papers. First, they ...
Welcome to Citation Needed!
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re excited to announce the launch of our new weekly podcast, Citation Needed, where we shine a light on the most unhinged corners of modern acade...