- "Sapiens" is basically an indictment of the whole concept of the "thought leader," a guy with academic credentials who sounds smart and underpays graduate students to (poorly) do the research that he slaps his name on and publishes.
- Episode 46: Sapiens It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
- You can tell when someone has actually read the stuff in the footnotes and when they haven't, when they've actually delved into the state of the fields they're describing and when they haven't. You can guess which of those two "Sapiens" is.
