Brief: The Free Press Tastes Its Own (Polio) Medicine
Conspirituality28 Des 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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192: Coffee is Your Friend, Not Your Enema (feat Mallory DeMille)

192: Coffee is Your Friend, Not Your Enema (feat Mallory DeMille)

This episode has been brewing for some time. This week we ask: which hole is coffee really supposed to go in? Because, in the contrarian and conspiratorial wellness world, a growing number of influenc...

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Bonus Sample: The GOP Takeover of Media

Bonus Sample: The GOP Takeover of Media

Project 2025 is the libertarian conservative Heritage Foundation’s systematic governance plan for the next Republican president. The 920-page plan aims to implement the "unitary executive theory," whi...

5 Feb 20246min

Brief: Deep Church Conspiracy (w/David Lafferty)

Brief: Deep Church Conspiracy (w/David Lafferty)

From the Supreme Court to Project 2025, reactionary Catholics are on the frontlines of this year’s war on democracy. Many of them bend the knee to an Italian redpilled Vatican diplomat: Cardinal Carlo...

3 Feb 202445min

191: Extremely Online (w/Taylor Lorenz)

191: Extremely Online (w/Taylor Lorenz)

The internet has changed not only how we communicate with each other, but how we understand the world. All technologies reorient how we navigate the world. This one just feels, at times, so disorienti...

1 Feb 202452min

Bonus Sample: The Plan to Dismantle Health Care

Bonus Sample: The Plan to Dismantle Health Care

Project 2025 is the libertarian conservative Heritage Foundation’s systematic governance plan for the next Republican president. The 920-page plan aims to implement the "unitary executive theory," whi...

29 Jan 20246min

Brief: New Year, Same Old Conspiritualists

Brief: New Year, Same Old Conspiritualists

Do people radicalized into conspiracism or cults ever admit their errors? When the prophecy fails and evidence shows they were wrong, do they come clean or double-down?  Julian checks in on some of th...

27 Jan 202445min

190: Females Drive Evolution (w/Cat Bohannon)

190: Females Drive Evolution (w/Cat Bohannon)

Science evolves, often through fits and starts. Yet for most of medical history, there’s been one consistent theme: most science has been conducted on male bodies. And this has created a range of prob...

25 Jan 20241h 10min

Bonus Sample: Post-Catholic Music (w/Julia Tucker)

Bonus Sample: Post-Catholic Music (w/Julia Tucker)

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