302: The Disinformation Dozen: Wuhan Drift
Early in this podcast we covered the Disinformation Dozen, 12 wellness influencers and contrarian health figures responsible for spreading the lion’s share of vaccine misinformation on major social me...
2 Apr 1h 6min
Bonus Sample: Peptides: Wellness’s Experimental Jab
Listen to the full episode The wellness industry has been repeating marketing strategies used by the fashion and diet book industries for decades. Influencers are just exploiting novelty-seeking cogn...
30 Mars 7min
Brief: Eulogy for Joseph Baker, Faithful Listener
Matthew eulogizes longtime Conspirituality listener Joseph Baker, who died on February 4 at the age of 51. They became online friends when Joseph reached out to say that maybe Matthew was being too ha...
28 Mars 31min
301: Gen X Meets the Manosphere
Did we all need a streaming manosphere documentary? Many did. Did we need one made in the GenX stop-and-mug slacker analysis-avoiding style of Louis Theroux? Debatable. Today we review Theroux’s Insid...
26 Mars 1h 12min
Bonus Sample: The New Age Muslim Apocalyptic Prophet
From a repurposed orphanage in the North of England, Abdullah Hashem tells his audience in five languages, across two satellite TV companies, and multiple social media channels that he is the successo...
23 Mars 8min
Brief: The Book Men Actually Need
There's been talk about the "male loneliness epidemic" for years. Yet what about women? Derek reviews economist Corinne Low's recent book, Having It All, in light of this question, contrasting it with...
21 Mars 29min
300: Farming Ballerinas
When Hannah and Daniel Neeleman recently went on camera to explain their position on raw milk, they assured their 22 million-plus following that they were going to follow regulations—with a bit of a g...
19 Mars 56min
