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Friday Fun Thread for September 13, 2024

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$15,000 for a couple of hours of answering questions on camera is crazy. Is this amount normal for academics?

diAngelo's speaking fees are famously high even by the standards of academics working in this milieu. She was paid the same amount for speaking at a library in Tulsa, refused a $10k speaking fee and makes $700k a year from speaking fees alone. Nice work if you can get it.

Yeah it's not out of line with what famous academics charge to speak for an hour.

For the very top household names it probably is (biblical scholar Bart Ehrman charges about this much for an appearance), Walsh and Co picked a number that was too good to pass up, but not so outrageous as to arouse suspicion.