The Reformers (2023) - PART ONE

The Reformers is AVAILABLE NOW - shorturl.at/fkvR7
If you’re low on $$, the cheapest way to access all four parts will be to create a paid subscription ($7) for the release month and then switch to unpaid after that. Advertising models aren't suited to the kind of work I do and the film industry was horrified by the content and perspective of this project so I've opted for an experimental release strategy on Substack. The goal is to raise a development budget for my next major film project and there are several other patronage options available if you’d like to help me get my next film off the ground.
THE REFORMERS
The Reformers explores the execution of the Grievance Studies hoax and aftermath for those involved. The hoax, orchestrated by a group of scholars (Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose) who submitted deliberately absurd and ideologically biased articles to prominent academic journals, made worldwide headlines and sparked intense debate about the influence of ideology and the erosion of critical thinking in academia. Nayna was embedded with the scholars from the hoax’s infancy. It can be viewed at michaelnayna.com
A film by Mike Nayna
Produced by Mark Conway
Director of Photography - Elliott Nieves
Original music by NEWEM and Nick Batterham
Any help you can give to spread the word will be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your ongoing patience and support.
Featuring
Mike Nayna
Peter Boghossian
James Lindsay
Helen Pluckrose
Richard Baldwin
‪@drpeterboghossian‬

[@MikeNayna]

The Reformers is AVAILABLE NOW - shorturl.at/fkvR7

[@swerremdjee2769]

Heay man, i heard you speak about that you are talking/working with 2 south africans, who are they since i have been also talking with some very smart south africans, i wondered if it were the same south africans?

[@MikeNayna]

@@swerremdjee2769 Clyde and Dayne Rathbone.

[@swerremdjee2769]

@@MikeNayna aight thnx👍

[@MortRouge]

It's good to see Helen Pluckrose getting better at public speaking. It's hopeful. She's an incredibly discerning and eloquent woman. Once she is completely comfortable and confident with addressing a crowd, she will be dangerously formidable.

[@matthewrichmond4139]

When people write about you let me know and then I'll tell you about your imperfections.

[@MortRouge]

​@@matthewrichmond4139 Your point?

[@hibbidyjibbidyy]

@@matthewrichmond4139 i think he was complimenting her, she clearly is eloquent and thoughtful

[@calmon-ground962]

That's old video.

[@GerardEarley]

At last, I'm so happy to see this documentary released. Well done to all concerned 😊👍

[@GerardEarley]

Aww man, I love the intro with Peter's voice saying "we're going after all of it", snd then when the music kicks... I got such hard feels and my heart swelled 💓 Great work. 👍

[@MortRouge]

I love the quote from Sir Roger Scruton. Rest his soul.

[@shelleyscloud3651]

Awesome, been looking forward to this. Hope it reaches those who have not yet but are now ready to listen. Thank you Mike 🙏👏🥂

[@user-ju6zx3rm8d]

fr, consider releasing the rest on KZbin asap. the lower the barrier the better this series will do

[@wabisabi3619]

So glad you are back. 2 year absence was too long 😛

[@rayz0101]

8:52 wasn't expecting the swole from that unassuming voice.

[@ds_7]

Finally! This is well overdue. So happy to see it come together so beautifully!

[@MikeNayna]

Part two is available now - michaelnayna.substack.com/p/the-reformers-part-two?sd=pf My goal is to use the series to raise development funding for my next major project. If you’re low on $$, the cheapest way to view it will be to sign up for a paid subscription ($7) for the release month and then switch to unpaid after that. There are several other patronage options if you’d like to support the work.

[@1armbiker]

When this is fully released would I be able to buy a digital copy, perhaps released in a higher bitrate than what KZbin offers?

[@Einherjar212]

Substack only accepts credit cards. I was going to give you money to see the rest of this, but I'm not from the US where everyone apparently has a credit card. Too bad.

[@kingsqueak2221]

You should stick it somewhere we can just pay a flat fee to watch it. I understand the situation but it's just getting to be way too many subscription fees scattered everywhere to continually have to keep unsubscribing from. I've badgered Substack to come up with a bundled flat rate for this reason, it's just too expensive for all the people I track and too much money month over month for occasional content.

[@tha1ne]

L O V E this. Amazing stuff Michael!

[@MCP_Blackout]

Way more people should know about this, unfortuantely everyt time I show it to someone he either already agrees with it, immediately downplays it and pretends it's not a real issue that affects anything or just doesn't speak english at all.

[@user-wb9de8no7p]

Exactly, I sent this and explained it to my friend and he instantly said that It's grose and It's making him sick. I said "what exactly is making you sick?" and he said that It's the people that did this experiment making him sick, making made-up studies that damage the of trans, feminist & queer people and that they should be put in jail for faking the papers. I no longer talk to him, that view made me sick. A lot of people just put a barrier around them and only broadcast their insane ideas out without taking any criticism or thoughts in.

[@tomchidwick]

Watching Peter just totally crack-up at James' ridiculous suggestions for a paper. I mean, wow. HAH! I love that so much. This is just great. Way to go, Mike. Can not wait to watch the rest.

[@samhand8270]

Featuring Francis Foster and Konstantin Kisin 😂

[@Berryations]

😂😂😂

[@rustyshackleford8497]

Lol! Konstantin was on Real Time last week btw

[@nf6386]

FF looked about 12 years old, I guess this was footage from back when Mike first met the trio?

[@grackattack7spadestack]

“Come on, Helen! You got this!”

[@jakw97]

These guys are what I strive to be regarding intellectual integrity. Helen is so insanly well read, James is a 150IQ nerd with a bone to pick and Peter is a Christopher Hitchens level angry rationalist. Dangerus trio

[@facuuu2809]

The lethal triad 😎

[@ebikescrapper3925]

Let's not forgot Denise's role in this.

[@nathanieljefferies5491]

Hahaha I know it is puerile but I found it funny you just called James a nerd.

[@lastmanstanding5423]

WOOHOO!!!! been waiting on this movie since 2018

[@LewsTherin100]

Oh damn, you got KK and Francis too!!!

[@JMarieThesisPodcast]

This is how the battle is won, by exposing what has been hidden from all of us. Great work!!

[@LeeGee]

You don't win battles charging for video.

[@JMarieThesisPodcast]

@@LeeGee or we can wait about a week for him to release it for free

[@NomenNescio99]

Good stuff, I'm looking forward to the next part!

[@aperson_1852]

What a treat! Thank you so much for putting this all together in this way. Well done.

[@Gabriel-lg2xo]

Absolutely love this. Please keep doing what you're doing!

[@lotteingerslev5776]

Thank you, Mike!

[@544CampStreet]

I had to join the substack to see where this is going. I loved the Evergreen three parter. Thank you Mike!

[@ars-almadel_salomonis9680]

Dude, the Evergreen Saga never ceases to break through the firmament. That's the single most potent distillation of knowledge/media illustrating the zealotry of this locust horde. Finely done Prof. Nayna.

[@poisonedyoyo1]

Excellent to see more of your work, Michael!

[@melissajones5985]

Oh Yaaa, I'm switching from my Nayna Patreon to Nayna Substack asap. Very exciting!

[@Mike.Garcia]

Amazing 👏👏👏... It's been too long in the making!

[@psychnstatstutor]

Fantastic! So good to see another series

[@nf6386]

Congrats Mike, I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time. Your original intro to the grievance studies trio and the Weinsteins was one of my earliest ventures down the anti-woke rabbit hole, it’s incredible to realise how much my perspective has changed since then!

[@spacejunk2186]

I like how the first clip of James Lindesy is him looking at his phone. I like to think he is tweeting again.

[@user-ju6zx3rm8d]

his tweets are based

[@invin7215]

That scene at the end was absolute comedy gold. That was like watching Dwight Shrute tell Michael Scott to look up hentai.

[@nf6386]

At 00:09:55 there seemed to be an awkward moment where the friend thought “wait, am I revealing too much interest/knowledge here?”

[@_DarkEmperor]

Any political ideology has a structure of fractal tree. You start with axiomatic assumptions of that ideology (main root) and everything else is emerging from that naturally.

[@sagfsaggwsgsdfhdsdag]

8:55 nothing could have prepared me for these arms

[@MikeNayna]

Professor Baldwin is famous for those arms - gmvbodybuilding.com/bodybuilding-videos/male-bodybuilders/male-bodybuilding-dvd/richard-baldwin-super-tape-dvd/?v=3a52f3c22ed6

[@mitanshudulera8353]

'now thats a paper right there' is my new catch phrase and i thought of 5 of them now .

[@bebopj]

Did not anticipate seeing a shot of Konstantin Kissin sitting next to Noam Chomsky!

[@MikeNayna]

Not Chomsky, it's the legendary Alan Sokal - instagram.com/p/B3u3qDfndF_/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

[@bebopj]

@@MikeNayna D'oh! Looked like Chomsky. Still, Kissin sitting next to Sokal is pretty awesome.

[@gen2917]

I have been waiting for this!🙌🏻

[@symmetricat188]

YES!!!

[@barnandhome]

I just listened to the interview one of you guys did on American Thought leaders. Absolutely brilliant and want to say thank you for investing your time and energy to expose this profound level of absurdity happening under the guise of intellectualism.

[@DeconvertedMan]

The canceling of Dawkins. The protests against people talking. The madness... the utter madness.

[@themanfromerf]

I just started attending college earlier this year. Its a community college. My literal English 101 class was all about critical theory. I dropped the class after getting to the second unit, which was basically a queer-theory based deconstruction of the nuclear family. My transfer program requires 6 classes in sociology, all other fields only require 1. I'm a computer science major. The academy is dead, it can't be reformed.

[@waddison77]

How about 'social justice' for whistleblowers?

[@Dani-ul6rb]

A transgender was among the finalists in this year's Miss Germany. Quote from a DW article: "Miss Germany Studios, the company that organizes the national pageant, has radically changed the judging criteria in an attempt to revamp the contest's image. Since 2019, candidates no longer prance on the catwalk in a bikini. Height and weight are also no longer important. In fact, appearances play absolutely no role, according to Jil Andert from Miss Germany Studios. The women rather have to demonstrate strong personality skills and "are meant to be a source of inspiration," Andert told German press agency dpa."

[@Darwinek]

It's no longer a Miss / beauty pageant contest then. On a separate note, from non Anglo Saxon countries, Germany is the deepest in the woke shit.

[@SunburnCity]

who cares? How is this a bad thing?

[@hibbidyjibbidyy]

@@SunburnCity i told my sister when whats his name was names woman of the year, what the hell have you been doing with your life? you went from a fry cook to working sismic having blasting tickets, getting helicopterides to remote areas to map shit out what she does now (and its cool as hell, shes upper management at an international construction company) this guy cut of his dick and is already a better woman than you? you gatta up your game sis

[@hibbidyjibbidyy]

@@SunburnCity riddle me now, and riddle this quick, who says they are sane, yet cuts off their dick?

[@jolaajtak7861]

@@Darwineknot as bad as the UK

[@luapjb]

Seeing Konstantin Kisin is in the audience (3:46) warms my heart! I love that guy.

[@newdiscourses]

:)

[@altnarrative]

Are all parts of the doco yet available on substack?

[@MisterFluffyBags]

I love what you're doing, but keeping the rest on Substack will do more harm than good. Significantly fewer people will see it and it will be niche and obscure.

[@Darwinek]

Very true

[@nf6386]

I subscribed, but yes I agree. The original evergreen triptych was a great easily shareable “redpill” because it was short, free, entertaining and the absurdity was immediately in your face.

[@Seriousgreeen]

4:45 wait a minute. did he just go to her hotel room, lay down on her bed and put his feet by her pillow. how rude. 😂

[@5emio]

Haha that was my first thought as well!

[@Darwinek]

Americans :D

[@dukecity7688]

The algorithm God sent you to me. Thank you my brother for being a champion for truth and sanity. I subscribed and look forward to seeing your content.

[@johnstevens6063]

the subsciption for the other parts isnt ideal, id be much happer to just pay a one off amount to watch it all.

[@swedishguyonyoutube4684]

8:52 bro is jacked!

[@zachmorgan6982]

Helen is lowkey the most knowledgable of the 3. They called her the oracle. She covers so many points in so few words. A sign of a great writer. U never r left wondering WHAT DOES SHE MEAN? U ALWAYS UNDERSTAND THE POINT

[@oblii5590]

does someone have a link to the end music please? i like it

[@jacobskovsbllknudsen5908]

What's crazy to me is that we live in times where the philosophers have become the comedians and the comedians have become the philosophers (and in some cases politicians...)

[@KirbyYardley]

Hilarious and frightening, considering what's happened since.

[@Bret461]

There are a number of critiques regarding the methodology of this study/experiment, for example no control group was included. I think it's only fair to hear both sides of this argument. Here is a good video outlining the potential flaws with the study kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKvakGeojsR1pac

[@hibbidyjibbidyy]

they were in fact the control group, how do you not see this?

[@karentracey9948]

Just saw your interview with Benjamin Boyce today,loved it mate 👍 cheers from Perth Western Australia 🇦🇺 things are going nuts over here for anyone owning a block over 1000 square meters,bonkers!

[@MikeNayna]

Thanks, mate. What do you mean about owning a 1000 sqm block? New policy?

[@janew2108]

That was utterly bizarre.

[@kalenstrandberg2347]

Real American Heros!

[@happydog6500]

Jaw dropping, basically when you fart in a room of professional fart smellers they don't notice the fake fart lol.

[@Einherjar212]

Substack only accepts credit cards. I was going to give you money to see the rest of this, but I'm not from the US where everyone apparently has a credit card. Too bad.

[@benlouw7009]

Heroes

[@Toranaboy634]

These people are heroes; I so admire them. (It'd be nice if we had some similar folks in architecture).

[@indiomoustafa2047]

Why is that professor so jacked though

[@Muonium1]

Well I've closely followed this saga since day 0 several years ago now but when I clicked I definitely didn't expect to hear Peter talking about roided female bodybuilder clits.... nonetheless, here we are....

[@tomchidwick]

LOL - same. These guys. Endlessly entertaining, and informative!

[@johnstevens6063]

were the other parts still coming to youtube?

[@MikeNayna]

No, sorry, it's an exclusive Substack release - www.michaelnayna.com.

[@lilliansheriff7668]

I was into Kick boxing for a season in my life, The ty-bo Man, Lucia Riker was my favorite competitior whose rival was Layla Ali!

[@brandinshaeffer8970]

For the past couple years I've named James Lindsay as who I believe to be the most important person to follow online. New Discourses.

[@thechainedmonkey]

Comment - Feed the alogrithm!

[@evo1ov3]

12:08 Oppisites! 😂😂😂

[@matweb8195]

LOL, Gold dust, pure gold dust.

[@hibbidyjibbidyy]

holy shit, professor pecs lol

[@matt69420]

what song plays at 3:04?

[@MikeNayna]

It's our original soundtrack by Sébastien Chenut & Nick Batterham.

[@hariseldon2577]

This is going to be FUN!

[@aakkoin]

Greatest American actor since Clint Eastwood and the greatest genius since Stanley Kubrick, the great James Lindsay

[@manbearpig7521]

Trying to organise a showing of this in Edinburgh with a bunch of (wrong thinking) feminists.

[@MikeNayna]

Sounds fun and frightening. Please share a video clip or two of this on social media and tag me in it.

[@manbearpig7521]

@@MikeNayna at early stages but we will pull it off

[@dominicm6144]

3:48 Konstantin Kisin

[@dkadkins6545]

Everything begins with methodology. Always, always look at the methodology used in any study/article and there you will discover whether a "study" was actually a valid study or ideology masked as academics.

[@lilliansheriff7668]

Why havent I been following this channel?

[@rickard.eriksson]

Aaaa yes! 4 years later, and its even worse! 😅😅

[@Alvaretti]

Does Weinstein appear later on? I hope not. He's gone off the rails, that one. Could hurt this project, which I have great admiration for. Thanks, Mike!

[@NikiBechusWTF]

Weinstein gone off the rails????? Seems like you've chosen to hold on tightly to the Establishment's propaganda currently in the process of being exposed as an absolute shit show. You make yourself look more pathetic by publically dismissing Bret as a loser as well as a reject of your elite club. Unfortunately for you and your intellectual clan which Bret has had to endure the last few years of mocking and abuse, his predictions are spot on & on the right side of history. What you thought and who you believed was not what you pushed for and got behind. However Bret's take on the vaccine and the Pandemic are now the actual facts. Here's just a few instances in layman's terms - Lab Leak was the origin not natural, Efficacy weans rapidly, vaccine does not stop transmission, contains Spike protein, jab does not stay in the arm, has many advers effects & leaves scar tissue around the heart is highly dangerous. The spike protein has many negative effects on all the body's organs not only the heart. Now you and Sam Harris run along and go get your 7th booster.

[@garyckliu4004]

Amazing

[@LictordeThrax]

I appreciate what you are doing, but I'm not convinced of the format/delivery method, let alone payment model. I'm baffled. This was hard to find, and it is way harder to recommend, even to likeminded people.

[@deenzmartin6695]

good stuff

[@chennelrep]

i dont know what this is

[@shotgunwound]

can you release just as one film and i can pay you five bucks without having to subscribe to any platforms or do too much jumping through hoops...

[@robertholland7558]

Never mind calling out racial and gender differences, how about the elephant in the room, literally…..obesity!

[@nickmagrick7702]

10:50 lol, really?

[@WorldTurningPodcast]

Did he say ‘she has an enormous clique’

[@ASpeakingHuman]

Way too cringe when they start watching porn at 10:30. I stopped the video.

[@quantumeseboy]

Who in their right mind lives in China now???

[@hibbidyjibbidyy]

a lot of people...a lot. but you eat too much meat. and the climate is all your fault

[@ghosttoaster]

The epilogue to this ought to be wild. Peter banned from research for not consulting the review board. James going full bigot and banned on Twitter for calling anyone who disagrees with him a groomer. Didn’t Pluckrose say she’s not even talking to James anymore.

[@user-ju6zx3rm8d]

James is based. You clearly don't know how the internet works

[@benjaminburt4285]

Surprises you're still making this, when James Lindsay has lost all credibility as an intellectual.

[@Yesica1993]

He's done no such thing.

[@st2rl2]

Explain

[@rig4365]

Did he? When? I just saw Jim do a great speech about Marxism

[@spacejunk2186]

@@rig4365 It's most likely a reference to James' unhealthy Twitter addiction. He posts all sorts of strange stuff on there.

[@christianacker3543]

I guess you must believe Lindsay lost credibility based upon the outcome you hope for, huh? "That's what you believe." Surprised so many people are still resorting to shout down-tactics, shame-based naked assertions and ad hominem attacks rather than making actual arguments on the differences of the philosophical world views and ideas presented. Their entire project and sacrifice of careers within the academic system speaks to the proof that credibility comes from sound and solid argument, not from the rubber stamp of an institution who's primary concern is self-preservation of self-titled authority. The desperate clawing for that authoritative control is to the detriment of all good faith pursuits of truth, knowledge and applied wisdom. That is why the film is called the Reformers. They exhibit a faith that their actions to reveal the widespread insidious ideology within Western institutions may correct the path of academia and intellectuals everywhere. Sadly, this Reformation, like the Protestant Reformation of 16th century Europe looks to be creating emotional reactions like yours. that continue in the habit of the very , which will lead to much strife for a long period before any correction or replacement is made to the institutions that have become so distorted by this ideology.