On this, our 346th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss the Cornell 7, sex in modern times, and the plague. Civil charges have been brought against seven men and several institutions, including Cornell University, by a woman who claims to have been drugged and gang-raped in a fraternity house on campus in October 2024. We go through legal documents and journalism about what happened and discuss consent, drinking and drugs, the Greek system, and what sex has and has not become. Then: a woman has died of plague in Russia; is a global pandemic coming? We discuss what to look out for.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Anna Bower at Slip Opinion with Cornell 7 docs (including the DA, the Civil Suit, and Kretzschmar petition): https://annabower.substack.com/p/read-the-cornell-7-documents
NYT on what transpired at Cornell in the Fall of 2024: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/nyregion/cornell-rape-accusation-reporting.html
Cornell has a sex ed problem: https://jaredlederman.substack.com/p/cornell-has-a-sex-education-problem
Jennifer Bilek: https://x.com/bjportraits/status/2107171941014536280?s=20
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Signed Copies in Seven Languages
00:05:34 Sponsor: SaunaSpace
00:08:55 Sponsor: CrowdHealth
00:10:33 Sponsor: Caraway
00:14:05 The Cornell 7 Case: A Misleading Name
00:18:23 Believe Women, or Wait for Evidence?
00:23:46 Why Sue Everyone? The Strike Price
00:30:11 Naive About Frats? Not Since 1987
00:36:03 In Everyone’s Care, Custody and Control
00:42:31 Regret Is Not a Lack of Consent
00:45:41 Blame Cornell, Blame the Bar?
00:52:38 Kretzschmar’s Negative Hair Test
00:59:05 Her Sworn Statement vs. the Lawsuit
01:07:23 How Her Account Changed
01:14:05 What Rape Once Took From a Woman
01:21:49 Two Strategies for Men, One for Women
01:27:25 Cornell’s Sex Ed: Yes, No, Maybe So
01:36:28 Why Sex Belongs Behind a Closed Door
01:39:27 A Special Prosecutor and Mob Rule
01:42:07 Why Are We Fed These Stories?
01:50:38 Plague: A Lab Worker Dies in Siberia
01:53:15 Pneumonic, Bubonic, and a Starving Flea
01:57:56 Is This the Next COVID?
02:06:15 Watch the Tabletop Exercises
02:11:10 Tiger Cats of the Andes
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