The Dissenter

My name is Ricardo Lopes, and I’m from Portugal. Thank you for visiting my podcast. Over the past few years, I have conducted and released more than 900 interviews and talks with experts and academics from a variety of areas and disciplines, ranging from the Arts and Philosophy to the Social Sciences and Biology. You will certainly find a subject of your interest covered here. New interviews are released on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays.

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Every guest on The Dissenter

1078 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Krister Bykvist

   #766 Krister Bykvist: Metaethics, Population Ethics, and Antinatalism · Apr 2023

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   Kristin Andrews

   #293 Kristin Andrews: Animal Minds, Theory of Mind, And Animal Ethics · Feb 2020

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   Kristopher Smith

   #687 Kristopher Smith: Human Cooperation, Partner Choice, and Long-Distance Relationships · Oct 2022

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   Kyle Fischer

   #699 Kyle Fischer: Dual Evolutionary Foundations of Political Ideology · Nov 2022

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   Kyle Thomas

   #531 Kyle Thomas: The Psychology of Common Knowledge · Oct 2021

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   L. Syd M. Johnson

   #1035 L. Syd M. Johnson: Controversies About Brain Death · Dec 2024

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   Laith Al-Shawaf

   #432 Laith Al-Shawaf: Evolutionary Psychology, Just-so Stories, Anger and Disgust, and Culture · 2 episodes

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   Lars Penke

   #1284 Lars Penke: Do Women's Mate Preferences Change During Ovulation? · 2 episodes

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   Lars Sandman

   #637 Lars Sandman: Ethics in Healthcare, Priority Settings, and End-of-Life Decisions · Jun 2022

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    Laura Betzig

    #1101 Laura Betzig - The Badge of Lost Innocence: A History of the West · May 2025

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    Laura Cabrera

    #205 Laura Cabrera: The Philosophy of Human Enhancement · Jul 2019

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    Laura Carroll

    #1216 Laura Carroll: Childfree Choices, and How Pronatalism Promotes Disinformation and Misogyny · Feb 2026

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    Laura Crucianelli

    #347 Laura Crucianelli: Interoception, Affective Touch, And Anorexia Nervosa · Jul 2020

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    Laura Vowels

    #631 Laura Vowels: Sexual and Relationship Satisfaction, Sexual Values, and the COVID-19 Pandemic · May 2022

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    Lauren Brent

    #483 Lauren Brent: The Evolution of Sociality, and Primate Societies · Jun 2021

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    Laurence Kirmayer

    #768 Laurence Kirmayer - Cultural Consultation: Encountering the Other in Mental Health Care · Apr 2023

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    Laurie Mintz

    #1108 Laurie Mintz - Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters and How to Get It · Jun 2025

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    Lawrence Anton

    #1004 Lawrence Anton - Antinatalism: Birth, Death, Consent, and Extinction · Oct 2024

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    Lee Cronk

    #219 Lee Cronk: Modern Cultural Anthropology, And Human Cooperation · Aug 2019

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    Lee Dugatkin

    #803 Lee Dugatkin - Power in the Wild, The Ways Animals Strive for Control over Others · Jul 2023

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    Lee Edelman

    #715 Lee Edelman - No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive · Dec 2022

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    Lee Ross

    #118 Lee Ross: Fundamental Attribution Error, Naïve Realism, and Politics · Jul 2019

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    Leonard Newman

    #623 Leonard Newman: Self-concept, Wrongdoing, Attitudinal Ambivalence, and Pluralistic Ignorance · May 2022

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    Leonid Tiokhin

    #639 Leonid Tiokhin: Producing Scientific Knowledge, and Improving the Social Sciences · Jun 2022

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    Leslie Sponsel

    #751 Leslie Sponsel - Yanomami in the Amazon: Toward a more Ethical Anthropology beyond Othering · Mar 2023

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    Lewis Goldberg

    #62 Lewis Goldberg: The Development and Scientific Relevance of the BIG FIVE · Apr 2019

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    Limor Raviv

    #364 Limor Raviv: Psycholinguistics, Child Development, and Language Acquisition · Sep 2020

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    Lisa Welling

    #92 Lisa Welling: Hormones and Behavior, Evolutionary Psychology and Social Psychology · Jun 2019

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    Lisa Yon

    #805 Lisa Yon: Elephant Welfare, Environmental Pollutants, and Zoonotic Pathogens · Jul 2023

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    Liuba Papeo

    #904 Liuba Papeo: Social Perception, and Processing Social Information · Feb 2024

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    Louis Bachaud

    #994 Louis Bachaud: Bad Science and Misogyny in the Manosphere · Sep 2024

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    Louise Barrett

    #551 Louise Barrett: Baboon Societies, Ecology, Embodied Cognition, and Evolutionary Psychology · Nov 2021

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    Luana Colloca

    #1040 Luana Colloca: Placebo Effects Through the Lens of Translational Research · Jan 2025

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    Luana Maroja

    #666 Luana Maroja: Gene Exchange, Adaptation, Speciation, and Phylogeography · Aug 2022

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    Lucia Melloni

    #724 Lucia Melloni: Consciousness, Language, and Neuroplasticity · Dec 2022

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    Luis Martínez
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    Luke Glowacki

    #877 Luke Glowacki: Is Human Warfare Ancient or Recent? · Dec 2023

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    Luke Kemp

    #1285 Luke Kemp - Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse · Jul 2026

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    Luke Russell

    #503 Luke Russell - Being Evil: A Philosophical Perspective · Aug 2021

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    Luís Ricardo

    #47 Luís Ricardo: O Líder Charlatão, Líderes e Estilos de Liderança em Sociedade Humanas · Apr 2019

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