Brief: The Free Press Tastes Its Own (Polio) Medicine
Conspirituality28 Joulu 2024

Brief: The Free Press Tastes Its Own (Polio) Medicine

We've been highly critical of The Free Press in the past, but a recent memoir-article about grappling with a familial history of polio by Jana Kozlowski stood out. Derek and Julian take no issue with the piece, which was an emotional plea to understand the ravages of polio and the efficacy of vaccines. The comment section is another thing. Show Notes Polio Ravaged My Family. Forget Its Horror at Your Peril. The First Five Errors in the Moth in the Iron Lung Book The First Five Errors in Dissolving Illusions by Suzanne Humphries Amazon Won’t Take a Stand in War Over Anti-Vaxxer Book Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Brief: Why Didn’t I Yell STFU at Jordan Peterson in 2017?

Brief: Why Didn’t I Yell STFU at Jordan Peterson in 2017?

In the spring of 2017, Jordan Peterson first went viral by writing this in Canada’s National Post:  I will never use words I hate, like the trendy and artificially constructed words “zhe” and “zher.” ...

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243: Free Market Contrarians (w/Eoin Higgins)

243: Free Market Contrarians (w/Eoin Higgins)

Edward Snowden is largely only a public name thanks to Glenn Greenwald’s reporting, for which he was one of the contributors to a Pulitzer Prize-winning series for The Guardian in 2014. For a while, M...

6 Helmi 20251h

Bonus Sample: Kelly Brogan’s Divine Dungeon: Pt 2 (feat/Esme Providence Brown)

Bonus Sample: Kelly Brogan’s Divine Dungeon: Pt 2 (feat/Esme Providence Brown)

Part 2 of Matthew’s sit down with sex-work veteran and social justice advocate Esme Providence Brown to discuss New Age / wellness antifeminist, Kelly Brogan, and how her craven politics bolster the p...

3 Helmi 20256min

Brief: Anti-Social Media (w/Renee Diresta)

Brief: Anti-Social Media (w/Renee Diresta)

When asked if he thought Mark Zuckerberg’s effective ending of fact checking was in response to threats that he would “put him in jail for a very long time,” Trump replied, “Probably. Yeah, probably.”...

1 Helmi 202529min

242: Executive Disorder

242: Executive Disorder

What the ever loving fuck. That’s our intro today. But we do have a structure. Julian’s going to review the Executive Order chaos, including the pardoning and deputizing of fascist street gangs. Derek...

30 Tammi 202552min

Bonus Sample: 1950’s Alien Yoga

Bonus Sample: 1950’s Alien Yoga

Full episode available here. The alien from Venus in George King’s head said: “Prepare yourself. You are to be the voice of interplanetary parliament.” It’s 1952 and the Englishman has been meditating...

27 Tammi 20255min

Brief: Patients Before Profits

Brief: Patients Before Profits

On Jan 10, the Oregon Nurses Association launched the largest healthcare strike in Oregon state history. Some 5k frontline caregivers from 8 Providence hospitals and 6 clinics have been holding the li...

25 Tammi 202533min

241: Unravelling The Telepathy Tapes

241: Unravelling The Telepathy Tapes

One of the top podcasts in the world—even beating out Rogan for a few hours—is popularizing a well-meaning intervention for non-speaking autistic people. Unfortunately, that intervention happens to be...

23 Tammi 20251h 11min

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