Bonus Sample: Strongman Heroes, Barefoot Science, & Fake Victims
Conspiritualists amp up their victimhood-fetish by comparing anti-vaxxers to Jim Crow-era African Americans and Jews under the Holocaust. Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson questions vaccines, bangs the CRT re...
16 Aug 20218min
64: Remembering Guru Jagat: a Panel
With guests: Philip Deslippe, Jules Hartley, Janja Lalich, and Stacie StukinWe’ve convened an expert panel this week to remember and discuss Katie Griggs, aka GJ. She died in an LA hospital on the eve...
12 Aug 20211h 36min
Bonus Sample: Wellness Pornography as Abuse
This past week, Matthew defined “Wellness Pornography”, working from the ideas of C. Thi Nguyen and Bekka Williams in their essay “Moral Outrage Porn.” In this bonus episode, he asks: How do we measu...
9 Aug 20218min
63: Yoga and the Jab (w/Colin Hall & Sarah Garden)
The YogaVaxGate Instagram post turns out to have been a bellwether for the $88B industry packed with science skeptics and spiritual bypassers. When Wolf Terry got trolled for daring to argue in Yoga J...
6 Aug 20212h 8min
Bonus Sample: Vaccines Are Not the Holocaust
A recent uptick in Holocaust-related memes around the COVID vaccine is fueling further anti-Semitic thought and behavior. Derek investigates a crop of wellness influencers guilty of this charge. -- --...
2 Aug 20214min
62: Manifesting Something Awful (w/Dale Beran)
The genius parade continues this week with co-host Dale Beran, author of It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office. All three of us writers are l...
30 Jul 20211h 23min
Bonus Sample: Digital Delusions: How conspiracy-fueled political religions like QAnon hijack our brains
QAnon emerged out of a perfect storm of evolving technology, social psychology, and global crisis. But it exploited pre-existing neural architecture already easily hijacked by addictive drugs, junk fo...
26 Jul 20218min
61: From Anti-Feminism to Anti-Vax (w/Dr. Annie Kelly)
It takes patience, empathy, and a steady hand to paint a detailed landscape of the politics and culture that connect anti-feminism to ethnonationalism to the broader obsessions of conspirituality.Dr. ...
23 Jul 20211h 31min
