The latest episode of The Life of the Mind features work Pinker did with Sam Mehr.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
What would count as true or false
TRUE: as of 2024-06-15, the most recent (or a newly released) episode of the podcast The Life of the Mind features research Pinker co-authored or carried out with Samuel Mehr (e.g. on music universals or infant-directed song). MOSTLY TRUE: the episode features the Pinker–Mehr work but was not strictly the latest at that date (e.g. it was released a few days to weeks earlier and another episode came out in between). MIXED: the episode features Mehr's work, but work Pinker was not involved in. MOSTLY FALSE: the episode only mentions the work in passing. FALSE: no episode of The Life of the Mind features this work.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (4)
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E1 The Life Of The Mind by Steven Pinker | podcast online radio.net
“Rationality Under Threat: Steven Pinker On Academic Freedom at Dissident Dialogues 22-07-2024 | 14 Min.”
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E2 The Life Of The Mind by Steven Pinker | podcast online radio.net
“In this episode, Steven discusses how genetics influences a person's personality and make-up as he debunks the fallacy that nurture has a greater influence on how we act.”
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E3 The Life Of The Mind by Steven Pinker This Is 42 (podcast RSS feed, hosted via Megaphone) · 2 November 2022
“Steven Pinker explains the incredible role of music in cultures around the world in his latest episode, providing substantial evidence to say that music is the labyrinth that connects us all.”
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E4 The Life Of The Mind by Steven Pinker This Is 42 (podcast RSS feed, hosted via Megaphone) · 22 July 2024
“<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 20:30:00 -0000</pubDate>”
Reasoning
E3 describes an episode on music's role in cultures around the world, but it is dated 2022-11-02. It does not name Sam Mehr, and it does not show which episode was the latest as of 2024-06-15. E1 points to a 22 July 2024 episode on academic freedom, and E4 shows a feed entry dated 22 July 2024, both after the claim date. E2's visible descriptions cover other topics. None of the evidence identifies the episode that was latest around 2024-06-15 or ties any episode to Pinker's work with Mehr, so the claim cannot be settled.
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Steven Pinker, “The latest episode of The Life of the Mind features work Pinker did with Sam Mehr.” (said 15 June 2024). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_a814a9aa3490, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_a814a9aa3490
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