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

1079 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Raymond Craib

   #807 Raymond Craib - Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age · Jul 2023

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   Raymond Hames

   #817 Raymond Hames: Hunting, Mating Systems, Warfare, and Evolutionary Anthropology · Aug 2023

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   Rebecca Earle

   #930 Rebecca Earle: The History and Politics of the Potato · Apr 2024

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   Rebecca Love

   #1198 Rebecca Love: Where Negative Attitudes Towards Sex Workers Stem From · Jan 2026

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   Rebecca Owens

   #528 Rebecca Owens: Sex Differences in Mating Behavior, Male Psychology, and Body Modifications · Sep 2021

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   Rebecca Sear

   #815 Rebecca Sear: Demography, Family Structures, National IQs, and the Evolutionary Social Sciences · 2 episodes

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   Rebecca Tuvel

   #841 Rebecca Tuvel: Feminism, Cultural Appropriation, Transracialism, and Animal Ethics · Sep 2023

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   Rebecka Hahnel-Peeters

   #821 Rebecka Hahnel-Peeters: Who Accepts Rape Myths, and Why? · Aug 2023

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   Redouan Bshary

   #70 Redouan Bshary: Game Theory and Animal Social Behavior · May 2019

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    Reinout de Vries

    #265 Reinout de Vries: Personality, The HEXACO, And Communication Styles · Dec 2019

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    Renata Benavente

    #707 Renata Benavente: Saúde Mental, Psicogerontologia, Psicologia Forense e Justiça Social · Nov 2022

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    Renee Magnan

    #311 Renee Magnan: Health, Affect, Physical Activity, And Addiction · Mar 2020

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    Ricardo Barroso

    #1253 Ricardo Barroso: Compormento Criminoso, do Ponto de Vista da Psicologia Clínica e da Justiça · May 2026

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    Ricardo Paes Mamede

    #1319 Ricardo Paes Mamede - Política Industrial: Como os Estados Transformam as Economias · Oct 2026

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    Richard Jean So

    #267 Richard Jean So: Cultural Analytics, Literary Studies, And Race · Dec 2019

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    Richard Redding

    #880 Richard Redding: Sociopolitical Values in Psychological Research and Clinical Practice · Dec 2023

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    Richard Ronay

    #297 Richard Ronay: Evolution, Hierarchy, And Leadership · Feb 2020

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    Richard Shweder

    Richard Shweder Part 2: Alan Fiske's Relational Models, Cultural Psychology, and Multiculturalism · 3 episodes

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    Richard Wilkinson

    #83 Richard Wilkinson: The Spirit Level, How to Seek Equality · May 2019

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    Rick Shenkman

    #417 Rick Shenkman - Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics · Jan 2021

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    Rivka Weinberg

    #1246 Rivka Weinberg: Does Life Have Meaning? · 2 episodes

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    Rob Dunn

    #294 Rob Dunn: Never Home Alone; The Species We Live With · Feb 2020

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    Robert Atkinson

    #389 Robert Atkinson - Big Is Beautiful: Debunking the Myth of Small Business · Nov 2020

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    Robert Barton

    #641 Robert Barton: The Evolution of the Primate Brain, The Visual Brain, and the Color Red · Jun 2022

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    Robert Borofsky

    #1026 Robert Borofsky: An Anthropology of Anthropology · Nov 2024

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    Robert Boyd

    #49 Robert Boyd: Gene-culture Coevolution, Cultural Evolution · Apr 2019

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    Robert Krueger

    #1095 Robert Krueger: Classification of Mental Disorders, and Mental Wellbeing · May 2025

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    Robert McCauley

    #414 Robert McCauley & George Graham: Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind · 2 episodes

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    Robert Paarlberg

    #532 Robert Paarlberg - Resetting the Table: Straight Talk About the Food We Grow and Eat · Oct 2021

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    Robert Vinten

    #989 Robert Vinten: Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion · Sep 2024

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    Robert Welshon

    #974 Robert Welshon: Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morality · Aug 2024

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    Robin Crompton

    #495 Robin Crompton: The Evolution of Human Bipedalism · Jul 2021

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    Robin Gregory

    #996 Robin Gregory & Brooke Moore - Sorting It Out: Supporting Teenage Decision Making · Sep 2024

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    Robin McKenna

    #958 Robin McKenna: Non-Ideal Epistemology · Jun 2024

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    Robyn Bluhm

    #348 Robyn Bluhm: Medicine, Psychiatry, And Neurosexism · Jul 2020

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    Roderick McIntosh

    #1036 Roderick McIntosh: Archaeology, Urbanism, State Formation and Human Evolution in Africa · Dec 2024

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    Rodolfo Dirzo

    #1043 Rodolfo Dirzo: The Importance of Biodiversity, and the Sixth Mass Extinction · Jan 2025

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    Rodolfo Leyva

    #592 Rodolfo Leyva: Neoliberalism, Social Media, Fake News, and Political Polarization · Feb 2022

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    Ronald de Sousa

    #1136 Ronald de Sousa: Why It's OK to Be Amoral · Aug 2025

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    Russell Blackford

    #654 Russell Blackford: Religious Freedom, Atheism, Scientism, Nihilism, and Morality · Jul 2022

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