155: We Want Them Infected (w/Jonathan Howard, M.D.)
What "really" happened during the pandemic? Conspiracists have decided to take a victory lap. They were right, you see? The vaccines failed, and besides, they were super dangerous. COVID obviously cam...
25 Touko 20231h 30min
Bonus Sample: The Dangers of Slogans
In 1970, farmer, writer, and environmental activist Wendell Berry published his essay, "Think Little." In it, he writes about the dangers of not making your public causes private causes as well, depen...
22 Touko 20236min
154: The Truth Wars (w/Renée DiResta)
In the post-truth world, journalists who report facts are disparaged as perpetuating the narrative while candidates who hold the appropriate qualifications are smeared as deep state operatives. Likewi...
18 Touko 20231h 18min
Bonus Sample: The Dalai Lama Spectacle
What the hell happened between the Dalai Lama and that Indian boy? The internet served up a raft of painfully inflammatory takes, so I took a month to talk with Tibetologists and review the literature...
15 Touko 20237min
Brief: Why Does Every Conspiracy Theory Lead Back to Antisemitism? (w/Ben Cohen)
We've seen it over and over again: somehow, in some way, globalists are involved. George Soros is pulling the strings. Jews will replace us, with other minorities, or fund the interests that are again...
13 Touko 202328min
153: The Anti-Sunscreen Movement (w/Sara Aniano & Michelle Wong)
Did you know that it’s not the sun that causes cancer, but sunscreen? Or that sunscreen is actually a Big Pharma creation to keep you from receiving the sun’s magical healing properties? How about the...
11 Touko 20231h 3min
Bonus Sample: Chris Rufo’s Fascist Long-Game
Florida governor Ron DeSantis appointed right-wing propagandist, Christopher Rufo, along with other conservative Christian education-activists, to the board of the tiny, progressive New College in Sar...
8 Touko 20236min
Brief: Marianne Williamson’s Spiritual Therapy Schtick
Marianne Williamson? Inexperienced? Not at all. In fact, she does have a ton of experience… in New Age, on-stage pseudotherapy, where she solves the problems of the troubled with memorized lines from ...
6 Touko 202352min
