Babbling Beaver:  “The Power of Mockery” | Tom Nelson Pod #356

This is an interview with The Babbling Beaver, a satirical persona inspired by the Babylon Bee, focusing on critiquing wokeness and climate alarmism primarily at MIT and other elite universities. The guest discusses the power of mockery in combating absurd academic and social trends, emphasizing the importance of making people laugh at what they consider foolishness. The interview also touches on personal experiences of academic and social retaliation, the effectiveness of ridicule in exposing hypocrisy, and the efforts to encourage satire as a means of challenging prevailing narratives on college campuses. 00:00 Introduction to the Babbling Beaver 01:35 MIT and Climate Wokeness 17:25 The Power of Mockery 26:42 Gender Madness and Medicalization 27:56 MIT's Changing Culture 29:05 Hyper Feminization at MIT 30:35 Admissions and Gender Balance 38:43 Scientific Publishing and Peer Review 41:51 Indigenous Graves Controversy in Canada 50:35 Satire and Humor in Academia https://babblingbeaver.com/ https://x.com/Babbling_Beaver — Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1