We finally weigh in on the latest current thing: the Lindsey Clancy trial. Not actually the trial though - the reactions and the reactions to the reactions. We discuss how the constant need to maintain moral high ground makes rational and honest discussion of sensitive topics impossible in the public square... then we have exactly that discussion in relation to the entire Clancy phenomenon. We also explore the counter-narrative as the narrative, as we love to do, and address the (in our view, astroturfed and intentional) damage the almost entirely female pro-Clancy reactions are doing to feminism and women's social "progress". No other modern event has caused such a significant and instantaneous shift of the Overton Window in relation to feminism and women's rights.

Evolutionary-adaptive and nonadaptive causes of infant attack/desertion in mammals: Toward a systematic classification of child maltreatment

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pcn.13096?

Fitness tradeoffs in the history and evolution of delegated mothering with special reference to wet-nursing, abandonment, and infanticidehttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/016230959290011R?

Corrections:

Around 17:10 Tyler says "one woman can make one baby" - one baby at a time is what was supposed to be implied.

Joel's audio, per usual, gets completely wacked out for a few minutes about a third of the way into the episode, but what's he's saying was too important to cut. So enjoy the laugh. We'll get him sorted out eventually.