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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Bonus Sample: Inside the Church of Bleach

Bonus Sample: Inside the Church of Bleach

Four members of the Florida-based Grenon family were recently sentenced to between 5 and 12 years of prison for selling bleach. The problem? They claimed that bleach, known as Miracle Mineral Solution...

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Special Report: RFK Jr.’s Independence Day

Special Report: RFK Jr.’s Independence Day

On October 9, RFK Jr. brought his three-podcast-bros-in-a-trench-coat campaign to Philadelphia. On a dias across from Independence Hall, he announced his anticipated departure from the Democratic part...

14 Loka 20231h 12min

175: Diagonalism (w/William Callison and Quinn Slobodian)

175: Diagonalism (w/William Callison and Quinn Slobodian)

Quinn Slobodian teaches Modern German History at Wellesley and William Callison teaches Political Theory and Human Geography at Uppsala. We first came across their work via Naomi Klein’s examination o...

12 Loka 20231h 32min

Bonus Sample: Swamp Creatures 3: The Pirate Palace

Bonus Sample: Swamp Creatures 3: The Pirate Palace

Our main character this week is the six-degrees of authoritarians—more like one or two degrees, in fact. He’s made millions playing footsie with most of the blood-thirsty kleptocrats of the last half-...

9 Loka 20237min

Special Report: Stealing Indigenous Voices in Australia (w/Tyson Yunkaporta)

Special Report: Stealing Indigenous Voices in Australia (w/Tyson Yunkaporta)

On October 14, Australians will vote in a referendum on a simple question: should Indigenous peoples be invited to form an advisory council—a Voice—to Parliament?  It seemed like a shoe-in “Yes”—befor...

8 Loka 202352min

174: Everything is Chemistry (w/Drs Andrea Love & Jessica Steier)

174: Everything is Chemistry (w/Drs Andrea Love & Jessica Steier)

Butcherbox Deal! Sign up today at butcherbox.com/conspirituality and use code CONSPIRITUALITY to receive ground beef for life plus $20 off your first order. We love our scicomm episodes, because they...

5 Loka 20231h 11min

Bonus Sample: Matt Christman & the Silence

Bonus Sample: Matt Christman & the Silence

On September 19, Matt Christman was hospitalized with, in the words of his colleagues on the podcast Chapo Trap House: “a sudden, severe medical emergency that will require a significant period of rec...

2 Loka 202314min

Deep Cut: The Dalai Lama Spectacle

Deep Cut: The Dalai Lama Spectacle

Deep Cut pulls from our bonus episode archive to unearth previous ideas that remain relevant today. What the hell happened between the Dalai Lama and that Indian boy? The internet served up a raft of ...

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