322: The Cult of Spiralism
Support the podcast Spiralism is a quasi-spiritual online movement that emerged from long, intense conversations between humans and AI chatbots. Across users, platforms, and models, chatbots have eng...
20 Aug 1h 11min
Bonus Sample: 1970’s Violent Revolutionary Chic
Listen to the full episode The “Summer of Love” ushered in a decade of revolutionary terrorism in the West. “Bring the war home” went the slogan of the Weather Underground, a small and highly-educate...
17 Aug 8min
Book Club: How the Internet Disrupted Science
How the Internet Disrupted Science is an enlightening gaze into the shady world of for-profit and open access scientific publishing. Authors Kent Anderson and Joy Moore join Derek to discuss their exc...
15 Aug 38min
321: Inflammation Pseudoscience
Inflammation is an important and necessary part of the body’s healing process. It’s also long been a wellness buzzword used to sell products that do very little to treat it. This week, we look at infl...
13 Aug 58min
Bonus Sample: Conspirituality in the Age of Hyperpolitics
Listen to the full episode Matthew applies Anton Jäger's Hyperpolitics—a theory of extreme politicization without institutional consequence—to conspirituality and to his own political biography. Co...
10 Aug 5min
Brief: The Ceuta Crisis Great Replacement Conspiracy
Last week, around 72,000 migrants flooded from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. What really happened? Was a local girl abducted, never to be seen again? Did the Moroccan border guards step a...
8 Aug 32min
DROP: Who Killed Charlie Kirk? (w/Brandy Zadrozny)
Support the podcast MS NOW senior reporter Brandy Zadrozny spent 10 months tracking the conspiracy theories that evolved online in the wake of the death of Charlie Kirk. She joins Derek to discuss wh...
7 Aug 31min
320: The Fauci Files
During an extraordinary career, Dr. Anthony Fauci led the federal response to HIV-AIDS, SARS, H1N1, Ebola, and Zika. He always advocated funding for pandemic preparedness, vaccine development, immunol...
6 Aug 1h 2min
