About Citation Needed
What is Citation Needed?
Welcome to Citation Needed, the weekly audio and video podcast where journalist Brad Polumbo and evolutionary biologist Colin Wright take a deep dive into the world of academic absurdity. Each episode, we spotlight and critique two of the most ridiculous examples of “woke” scholarship.
We expose activist “research” that defies logic, reason, and even basic decency. These studies often abandon objectivity in favor of ideological storytelling, replacing evidence with buzzwords and transforming scholarship into a parody of itself. Whether it’s academics insisting that glaciers have genders, promoting romantic relationships with inanimate objects, or declaring that math is racist, we pull back the curtain to reveal just how detached from reality these ideas have become.