Colin Wright on the State of Academic Science, Gender, and His Latest Career Move

Former Quillette Managing Editor Colin Wright explains why scientists no longer always feel free to speak up in the face of pseudoscience, and why he gave up his hunt for a job as a professor in the field of evolutionary biology for a career in journalism. Colin recently wrote about being cancelled because of his non-conformist views on gender for Quillette.

Colin Wright is an evolutionary biology PhD, Manhattan Institute Fellow, an Academic Advisor at the Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine (SEGM), and a member of The Killarney Group.

Wright received his PhD in evolutionary biology from UC Santa Barbara in 2018, and was an Eberly Research Fellow at Penn State from 2018 to 2020. He began writing publicly about issues of sex and gender in 2018. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Times, the New York Post, Newsweek, City Journal, Quillette, Queer Majority, and other major news outlets and peer-reviewed journals. He has been a guest on popular TV shows and podcasts such as The Joe Rogan Experience, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Triggernometry, Timcast IRL, and others.

This episode was originally published: 8 August 2020 https://quillette.com/2020/08/08/podc...

Read Think Cancel Culture Doesn’t Exist? My Own ‘Lived Experience’ Says Otherwise by Colin Wright: https://quillette.com/2020/07/30/thin...
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