Reasonable Doubt
Claim This Podcastby Mackenzie D. Taylor
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<p>Mackenzie D. Taylor interviews academics, creatives and artists on a broad range of humanities topics monthly - on psychology, philosophy, theology and art. </p>
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June 30, 2026
#5 - Lyle McDonald on the Hypertrophy Science Crisis
<p><strong>Episode #5 - Lyle McDonald, BSc.</strong></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/810890695609053/user/1424332470/?__cft__[0]=AZYi_Z-CU6yYrHWSpkJ6ckEXnl6s50lc-JbSVjxTPrkEVnJS2mwhPghd75G1dg3Ap5XTB8S6H-dS6I5RqNL7ml6znAQ6vGTs_oPC5XgRocvvpVqMnAO98MixNwS_UB4zsq3Eu5jQmbfRxtLjdGn256pOSkiicmbaAXdU7lwkWKxZE4OjksrHJ516Ns4f5W9hZlyCp5znfm3Yu4AyEOpfpy3jt_8ovjgIf-d6wGIUh04BZw&__tn__=-]K-R">Lyle McDonald</a> joins me for a wide-ranging discussion on hypertrophy (or muscle growth) research, fitness fictions, and the changing intellectual culture of the industry.</p><p>Drawing on decades of coaching, independent research, writing, and arguing with people on the internet, Lyle examines the rise of reductionist explanations in exercise science, the growing gap between laboratory findings and real-world results, and the tendency to mistake plausible mechanisms for established facts.</p><p>We discuss volume landmarks, training to failure, stretch-mediated hypertrophy, the influx of “science communicators”, and the (pseudo)scientific claims touted by people like Mike Israetel and the Renaissance Periodization paradigm. The conversation should interest the philosophically inclined too—more broadly, we discuss what counts as evidence, the problems with metanalyses, how fitness fads gain credibility, and why some of the loudest voices in the industry may be the least scientifically rigorous.</p><p>Lyle McDonald is an exercise physiologist, author, and independent researcher. He holds a B.Sc. in Kinesiology with an emphasis in Exercise Physiology from UCLA and has spent more than three decades writing about nutrition, body re-composition, and hypertrophy. He's the author of several influential books, including The Protein Book, The Ketogenic Diet, Ultimate Diet 2.0, and A Guide to Flexible Dieting, and has become one of the most outspoken critics of pseudoscience and poor reasoning in the modern fitness industry.</p>
June 10, 2026
#4 - "Tartaria, Thunderless Lightning & Other Completely Normal Topics" : Campfire Epistemology with Isaac J. Ryan
<p><strong>#4 - "Tartaria, Thunderless Lightning & Other Completely Normal Topics" : Campfire Epistemology with Isaac J. Ryan and Mackenzie D. Taylor</strong></p><p>Tonight's episode begins with Schumann resonances and somehow becomes a discussion of the Tartarian Empire, fractal antennas, etheric energy extraction, biblical archetypes, gender politics, church communities, and whether Jesus was probably funny.</p><p>Around a fire, three men attempt to reverse-engineer reality using a mixture of YouTube archaeology, Christian mysticism, personal testimony, quantum mechanics, sacred geometry, and practical advice about chopping kindling.</p><p>No conclusions are reached. Several universes are proposed.</p><p>Topics include:</p><ul><li>Tartarian fireplaces</li><li>Frequency-based architecture</li><li>Lightning as communication technology</li><li>Why the Great Wall of China is apparently suspicious</li><li>Whether heaven is a location or a state of mind</li><li>The dangers of gronks</li><li>Fire maintenance</li></ul><p>A surprisingly wholesome conversation about meaning, community, and the possibility that everything is connected by vibrations nobody can quite define.</p>
May 17, 2026
#3 - "Doppelgänger: Dr. David Bentley Hart On Dostoevsky's The Double and the Problem of Modern Identity"
<p><strong>Visiting Professor David Bentley Hart</strong> zooms in with UWA Philosophy Society to deliver a dynamic, stimulating and interesting lecture on Dostoevksy's The Double. Throughout and in the following discussion we talked about AI, personal identity, Christianity and universal salvation. I speak for the class of 2026 when I say that all of us tremendously enjoyed it. Thank you David.</p><p>From DBH:</p><p>"Inspired by a comic--though also quite serious--article I published about a year ago at Leaves in the Wind (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://davidbentleyhart.substack.com">https://davidbentleyhart.substack.com</a><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="ytAttributedStringLink ytAttributedStringLinkCallToActionColor" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbHFDMzAzYVluTGg4bDZPSlNUT05UZFNDWklQQXxBQ3Jtc0trOXdiUmVzckQ5azZCc3V5a19UNk5ja1dWcWtlaC1kcElxczVaSkdPMk02QkNGQ2g2WmZKekpZaDlkY2pMcHB4bnExMm9ZM01wMS12aXU1SENsbUdsVFJobnB5SEplOHBDUzVwWjk5bzFhYUNjYThqTQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fdavidbentleyhart.substack.com%2Fp%2Fleave-at-once-or-i-shall-set-the%3Futm_source%3Dpublication-search%29&v=wfDUT450H2g">...</a>,) Mackenzie Taylor, on behalf of the Philosophy Club of the University of Western Australia in Perth, invited me to give a talk by Zoom on Dostoevsky's The Double and on whatever reflections the novella had occasioned in me. I delivered the first part of the original piece before taking my talk in a direction of its own. Along the way, both in my address and in the exchanges that followed, we talked about Dostoevsky's text, but also about Kafka's Metamorphosis, Nabokov's Despair, and some of my own travails in being haunted for many years by my own (online) Doppelgänger. We also discussed the age of AI, the question of artificial consciousness, Richard Dawkins's touching romance with Claudia, our shared sense of personal identity in the virtual age, cultural fragmentation, political contentions, the nature and history of nihilism, Russian Orthodoxy, and even theological universal salvation. </p><p>By the way, excuse a misstatement: Christ kisses Ivan’s Grand Inquisitor, not the reverse. </p><p>It was good of the club to convene on a Saturday morning (though it was still Friday night at my end) and I enjoyed the encounter immensely. </p><p>I was saddened to see that my dear friend Byron the Koala was not in attendance, but he lives on the other side of the country, near Sydney, and he warned me he probably would not be able to make it. </p><p>C'est la vie."</p>
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