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In this one Cory, Dan, Rene, Lisa, and Dave talk about how we talk to the opposition about climate change, among other things. Then they talk about Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and how she deals with Republican trolls. Then you get our What's the Deal segment on globalism and Cory rants about mainstream media conspiracies.

What's the deal with globalism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_(conspiracy_theory)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/us/politics/globalism-right-trump.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/explaining-rights-obsession-george-soros/572401/

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In this episode Cory, Rene, Lisa, Dan, and Dave talked to Dr. Jen Gunter about topics related to health, pseudoscience, and misinformation. It was a great chat and Dr. Gunter was an awesome guest.

Here are some links to her stuff

https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/

https://twitter.com/DrJenGunter

  

Here are some of the the references she recommended

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/

https://www.aap.org/en-us/Pages/Default.aspx

https://www.acog.org/

https://sogc.org/

Here's a link to the goat testicle guy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley

  

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In this episode of Shift To Reason Radio, Cory, Rene, Sarah, and Dave talk about Halal soup, ghost sex, alien probes, animal vaccines for anthrax, the science of pot in your bloodstream, and yet another incel who murdered people.

Links for stories

  

WTF!?

Rene's Story - https://www.facebook.com/woodbine777/posts/10160845178880063

Woo Report

Dave's Story - https://nypost.com/2018/10/30/woman-who-had-sex-with-20-ghosts-is-now-engaged-to-a-spirit 

Cory's Story – https://ktla.com/2018/11/05/mystery-object-that-sped-past-earth-last-year-could-be-probe-sent-by-aliens-harvard-researchers-say/ 

Sarah's Story - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/i-hunted-ghosts-regina-centennial-mall-1.4883017 

Science

Sarah's Story - https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/vaccine-protects-animals-against-anthrax-plague

Daves's Story - https://mic.com/articles/168783/how-long-does-marijuana-stay-in-your-system-how-thc-blood-tests-work-and-what-you-should-know 

New segment on Hatred and Violence

Cory's Story - https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/11/03/florida-man-who-killed-two-women-yoga-studio-spoke-incel-hero-elliot-rodger-online-video 

 

  

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In this episode of the Brainstorm Rectable, Cory, Sarah, Rene, and Dave talk about some of the stuff from a few days after the midterm elections in the US, Brazil's new fascist leader, and Cory does a rant about the danger of the far right.

Here are some links

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/06/us/elections/results-house-elections.html 

Brazil links

https://www.facebook.com/tanyasau/posts/10110737942059853

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2018/10/christian-fascism-comes-to-brazil-new-president-bolsonaro-promises-christian-theocracy

https://www.facebook.com/ShujiAli/videos/10156841268947210/ 

https://youtu.be/Diap_PMN-p0

I also highly recommend this episode of Revolutionary Left Radio discussing Brazil

https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/battleground-brazil-jair-bolsonaro-the-military-dictatorship-fascism 

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In this episode of the Skeptic Studio Cory, Sarah, Rene, and Dave talk to Kavin Senapathy. Kavin is very well known in skeptical circles for her blogs and her book The Fear Babe: Shattering Vani Hari's Glass House. Kavin and the crew talk about the state of skepticism and some recent events that make it seem like some parts of the skeptic movement are a little out of touch.

Here are some links for her stuff

https://scimoms.com/ 

https://twitter.com/ksenapathy

https://www.facebook.com/Ksenapathy/

https://www.facebook.com/pointofinquiry/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kavinsenapathy/#1805a5d73782

https://amzn.to/2yUzP6a

https://www.facebook.com/ScienceMomsDoc/

  

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In this episode of The Skeptic Studio Cory talked to Dr. Edwin Hodge from the University of Victoria in British Colombia. They discussed various extremist groups, some links between ways they approach the world, and some of the history behind them.

Here is a link to the last time Cory talked to Dr. Hodge

https://www.brainstormblog.net/the-hardcore-skeptic-examines/2017/5/21/an-academic-talks-social-justice

You may also find Cory's interview with David Neiwert interesting and relevant to the subject

https://www.brainstormblog.net/the-skeptic-studio/rightwingextremism-davidneiwert

or Cory's recent blog article/podcast rant on the subject

https://www.brainstormblog.net/blog-entries/riseofthefarright

Credit for portions of this image goes to

Anthony Crider; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:37, 9 April 2018 (UTC) [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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 In this episode of Skeptic Voices I talked to Michael Smith from the Poorly Summarized podcast. He was on The Skeptic Studio in the past and I thought it would a lot of fun to talk to him again. He's a good guy and we had a great chat about a lot of things. 

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https://www.facebook.com/michael.l.smith.391 

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https://www.instagram.com/goodlordzilla/?hl=en 

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In this episode of Shift To Reason Radio Cory, Lisa, Rene, and Dave talk about a bunch of stuff but most importantly they talk about the day that pot became legal and some of the issues that brought up.

Here are all the links for stories

Woo Report

Rene's Story - https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evw7ne/tom-delonges-ufo-organization-is-37-million-in-debt

Dave's Story- https://www.popsci.com/polygraph-test-science Lisa's Story - https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2018/10/13/i-reviewed-all-161-of-goops-wellness-products-for-pseudoscience-heres-what-i-found/

Rene's Story - https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/mbdwnp/witch-hex-brett-kavanaugh

Science

Lisa's Story - https://www.sciencealert.com/lots-of-christmas-music-could-be-bad-for-our-mental-health

Cory's Story – http://time.com/5430203/new-study-not-exercising-worse-than-smoking/

Politics

Dave's Story - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marijuana-faq-legalization-need-to-know-1.4862207

Cory's Story - https://splinternews.com/the-activists-waging-a-war-to-make-the-far-right-go-bro-1829659363

related https://www.thecut.com/2018/10/richard-spencer-wife-abuse-divorce-allegations.html

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In this episode of the Rectable, Cory, Rene, Lisa, and Dave talk about Elizabeth Warren and her supposedly Indigenous ancestry, some of the recent right wing terror attacks, and a new segment called What's the Deal. This time around for What's the Deal we talk about rape culture. Hint: It's bad. 

Here are some resources for these topics

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2018/10/16/claims-that-us-is-a-genetic-melting-pot-appear-overblown-if-youre-white/?mc_cid=e18402a57a&mc_eid=3b2e1845c4

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/15/17978144/elizabeth-warren-dna-test-native-american-genetics-ancestry-culture-identity-politics

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/kim-tallbear-elizabeth-warren-dna-results-indigenous-identity-1.4863903

https://theslot.jezebel.com/our-vote-matters-very-little-kim-tallbear-on-elizabeth-1829783321

https://wakelet.com/wake/57e215e9-3566-4d4e-9fc7-a9d844bb504c

What's the Deal with Rape Culture?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_culture

http://www.wavaw.ca/what-is-rape-culture/

https://www.marshall.edu/wcenter/sexual-assault/rape-culture/

https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/9/27/17906644/sixteen-candles-rape-culture-1980s-brett-kavanaugh

  

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As soon as I listened to his book, Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in Trump's America, I knew that I wanted to talk to David Neiwert. He has covered far right extremists for various news outlets for decades and has written about hate crimes and extremist groups for a long time as well. In this episode I talked to him about the extremist right, some of the history of them, and how that plays into current events. It was a very interesting chat and I think David does a great job of highlighting the danger presented by the far right.

Here are some links to David's work

https://www.splcenter.org/HATEWATCH

https://twitter.com/DavidNeiwert

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/

https://amzn.to/2SnNUBj

https://www.amazon.ca/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&field-author=David+Neiwert&search-alias=books-ca

  

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