Supplementary Material 15: Russian Stooges, Lex Love-bombs, and Heterodox Hypocrisy

We rip off the unconvincing plastic mask to reveal the true gurus lurking underneath and discuss:

• Russian Propaganda and Influencer Scandal
• Profit Incentives in Alternative Media and the Need for Disclosure
• Excessive Profiteering and Advertising
• Lex Fridman interviews Trump (with love)
• Trump and Anti-Vaxx Conspiracy Theories
• Trump and Kamala Debate Reactions and Heterodox Takes
• Destiny vs. the Low Bar of the Alternative Media
• When Joe met Bret
• Rogan & Bret's Massive Projection and Hypocrisy
• Financial Incentives in Alternative Media
• Gabor Maté cites some Neuroimaging Studies
• Matt's HUGE Correction on Twitter Funding
• The University of Austin in Texas still exists!

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Links

• Legal Eagle video on the Tenet Media scandal
• Kanai, R., Feilden, T., Firth, C., & Rees, G. (2011). Political orientations are correlated with brain structure in young adults. Current Biology, 21(8), 677-680.
• Boekel, W., Wagenmakers, E. J., Belay, L., Verhagen, J., Brown, S., & Forstmann, B. U. (2015). A purely confirmatory replication study of structural brain-behavior correlations. cortex, 66, 115-133.
• Joe Rogan Experience #2198 - Bret Weinstein
• Donald Trump Interview | Lex Fridman Podcast #442
• The Guardian: We each have a Nazi in us. We need to understand the psychological roots of authoritarianism. Gabor Maté.