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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   Gordon Pennycook

   #380 Gordon Pennycook: Analytic Thinking, Reasoning, and Fake News · Oct 2020

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   Herbert Gintis

   #237 Herbert Gintis: Altruism And Self-interest, As Revealed Through Game Theory · 2 episodes

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   Hugo Mercier

   #331 Hugo Mercier: Not Born Yesterday; Gullibility, Vigilance, Politics, and Social Media · 2 episodes

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   Hyrum Lewis

   #943 Hyrum Lewis - The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America · May 2024

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   Indre Viskontas

   #262 Indre Viskontas: The Psychology of Music · Nov 2019

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   John Allen Paulos

   #697 John Allen Paulos - Who’s Counting?; Uniting Numbers and Narratives with Stories · Oct 2022

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   Karen Lloyd

   #1178 Karen Lloyd - Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth · Nov 2025

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   Kate Adamala

   #552 Kate Adamala: Synthetic Cells, Cell Evolution, the Origin of Life, and Astrobiology · Nov 2021

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   Kevin Zollman

   #264 Kevin Zollman: Game Theory, Evolutionary Biology, And Social Dynamics · Dec 2019

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    Michael Hudson

    #1159 Michael Hudson - Temples of Enterprise: Creating Economic Order in the Bronze Age Near East · 2 episodes

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    Michael Muthukrishna

    #839 Michael Muthukrishna: A Theory of Everyone · 2 episodes

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    Michael Tomasello

    #689 Michael Tomasello - The Evolution of Agency: Behavioral Organization from Lizards to Humans · 2 episodes

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    Nicole Rust

    #1235 Nicole Rust: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders―and How We Can Change That · Apr 2026

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    Patricia Churchland

    #252 Patricia Churchland: Conscience, Morality, and Moral Philosophy · 4 episodes

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    Russ Shafer-Landau

    #646 Russ Shafer-Landau: Metaethics, and Moral Realism · Jul 2022

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    Samir Okasha

    #234 Samir Okasha: Natural Selection, From Genes To Groups · Sep 2019

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    Sean McMeekin

    #1149 Sean McMeekin: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism · Sep 2025

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    Simon DeDeo

    #109 Simon DeDeo: From Atoms to Societies, Emergentism and Reductionism · Jul 2019

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    Stefanos Geroulanos

    #1109 Stefanos Geroulanos: The Invention of Prehistory · Jun 2025

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    Aubrey de Grey

    #1165 Aubrey de Grey: The Science of Aging and Longevity · Oct 2025

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    Daniel Everett

    #276 Daniel Everett: The Evolution and Varieties of Language, and the Pirahã · Jan 2020

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    Jack Symes

    #621 Jack Symes - The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast; Philosophers on Consciousness · May 2022

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    Joseph LeDoux

    #982 Joseph LeDoux - The Four Realms of Existence: A New Theory of Being Human · 2 episodes

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    Michael P. Masters

    #301 Michael Masters: The Anthropology Of Identified Flying Objects · Feb 2020

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    Agustín Fuentes

    #1093 Agustín Fuentes - Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary · 3 episodes

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    Camilla Nord

    #979 Camilla Nord - The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health · Aug 2024

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    David Sloan Wilson

    #675 David Sloan Wilson: Religion, Multilevel Selection, Group Selection, and Designing Society · 2 episodes

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    Paul Zak

    #140 Paul Zak: Neuroeconomics, Oxytocin, Trust, Companies and Society · Feb 2019

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    Ursula Goodenough

    #832 Ursula Goodenough - The Sacred Depths of Nature: How Life Has Emerged and Evolved · Sep 2023

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    Daisy Dixon

    #1276 Daisy Dixon - Depraved: The Story of Dangerous Art · 2 episodes

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    Daniel Blumstein

    #735 Daniel Blumstein: Predator-Prey Research, Antipredator Behavior, and Conservationism · Jan 2023

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    Frank McAndrew

    #605 Frank McAndrew: Evolutionary Psychology, Gossip, Namesaking, and Aggression · Mar 2022

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    Justin Gregg

    #667 Justin Gregg - If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal; Evolution, Animal Intelligence, and Human Stupidity · Aug 2022

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    Katherine Freese

    #600 Katherine Freese - The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter · Mar 2022

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    Mathias Clasen

    #644 Mathias Clasen: The Psychology of Horror, Apocalyptic Stories, and Villains · Jun 2022

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    Matt Grossmann

    #1083 Matt Grossmann: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics · Apr 2025

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    Roderick Beaton

    #1314 Roderick Beaton - Europe: A New History · Oct 2026

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    Adaner Usmani

    #449 Adaner Usmani: Mass Incarceration, Black Subordination, and Modern Democracies · Mar 2021

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    Justin Lehmiller

    #1176 Justin Lehmiller: The Science of Desire, and The Most Common Sexual Fantasies · Nov 2025

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    Manvir Singh

    #1099 Manvir Singh - Shamanism: The Timeless Religion · 3 episodes

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