Conspiracy Clearinghouse

By Derek DeWittSociety & Culture Science History

Conspiracy Clearinghouse episodes

July 22, 2020Conspirasaurus Rex: Dino-Mite Theories About the Dinosaurs
Episode 11 | Conspirasaurus Rex: Dino-Mite Theories About the Dinosaurs
What happened to the dinosaurs? Did a meteor wipe them out? Was it volcanoes? Maybe their eggs just sucked. Or they farted themselves to death. Or they never existed at all. Or maybe they never died. Or maaaybe they helped build the pyramids.
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SECTIONS
01:38 - Some Background on Dinosaurs - Richard Owen, Early Fossils and the Bone Wars
04:28 - What We Think We Know - Two Types of Dinosaurs
05:43 - Size Matters, Kinda
06:52 - After a While, Crocodile - the K–Pg Event
08:26 - Where'd They Go? Eggy Weggs, Glands, Survival of the Fittest, "Who Are You?", Boom (but Far Away), Peek-a-boo, COVID 63 Million BCE, Sausage Party; He Who Smelt It, Dealt It; Multiple Impacts, Volcanoes
16:35 - We Have a Winnah! The Alvarez Hypothesis
17:55 - Alt.Extinct Theories - Non-Science Edition: Gravity Sucks, the X-Files
21:19 - Dinosaurs Aren't Real - PETA, CGI & Social Media
23:09 - The Bible or Dragons
25:35 - Another Brick in the (Masonic) Wall, Darwin's a Liar
26:41 - I Don't Even Need a Reason
27:42 - Oiled & Ready
28:41 - They Live
31:16 - The Dinosaurs Built the Pyramids
Music by Fanette Ronjat
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DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence for Podcasts Series-Corporate Communications and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.
PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER.
38 min
July 08, 2020Fright Delays: Denver Airport Is the Nexus of Evil
Episode 10 | Fright Delays: Denver Airport Is the Nexus of Evil
It's big, it's unusual and gets folks to thinking. Denver International Airport is more than just the hub for airlines - it's a magnet for just about every conspiracy theory you can think of.
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SECTIONS
01:46 - That's a Big DEN
04:12 - I Don't Know If It's Art, and I Don't Know If I Like It
09:40 - That's a Big Horse - Blucifer
12:12 - Phallus Fails
13:29 - Infernal Infrastructure
17:21 - NWO at DEN
18:26 - Location, Location, Location!
19:38 - Dumb DUMBs - Humans vs. Aliens and/or Aquarius vs. Comm 12
20:21 - Beach Blanket Babylon
20:48 - No Such Thing As Bad Publicity
23:11 - DEN as Super-Conspiracy
Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
05:21 - Jack Swigert's exact words were actually, "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here."
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PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER.
26 min
June 24, 2020Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Finland Doesn’t Exist
Episode 09 | Now You See It, Now You Don't: Finland Doesn't Exist
There are some things you just know are true. Like that Finland exists. But it doesn't. Neither does Australia. And New Zealand's looking kind of iffy as well. In fact, there are many things that you think are real, but aren't. Like birds. They aren't real either.
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SECTIONS
01:42 - Finland Doesn't Exist - The Theory
04:38 - Finland Doesn't Exist - The Point Zero
06:42 - Poe's Law & the Ambiguity of Intent (Postmodern Irony, New Sincerity, Post-Irony, Meta-Irony, Hyper-Irony)
11:20 - Finland Doesn't Exist - Embellishments & Reactions
12:36 - Australia Doesn't Exist
14:53 - Other Geographic Fictions (OGF) - Bielefeld, Germany
18:10 - OGF - Acre, Brazil
18:40 - OGF - Molise, Italy
19:01 - OGF - North Dakota, USA
19:32 - Henri Tajfel's Minimal Group Paradigm, In-Group Favoritism & Out-Group Homogeneity
20:36 - New Zealand Is Being De-Mapped
22:23 - Sandy Island
23:39 - Phantom Islands (Los Buenos Jardines, Emerald Island, Dougherty Island, Terra Nova, et al.)
25:54 - Phantom Settlements, Copyright Traps, Paper Towns, Trap Streets, etc.
26:57 - Jakob Maria Mierscheid - German MP, Naturalist, Great Guy
28:51 - Birds Aren't Real - The Brainchild of Peter McIndoe
33:01 - Culture Jamming & You
Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
At 20:17, I mispronounced the word "homogeneity"
NOTE: I do NOT mispronounce the name Henri Tajfel, but most people do (the "j" makes a "y" sound in Polish)
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36 min
June 17, 2020Time Cube: Four Is the Loneliest Number
Episode 08 | Time Cube: Four Is the Loneliest Number
The world is a cube, time is a cube, you are a cube - everything's a cube. That's what Gene Ray, an electrician from Florida said. And he should know, since he was "the wisest man on Earth" and "wiser than God".
This is the strange and occasionally disturbing story of one of the wildest theories to ever hit the internet - the Time Cube Theory. Don't be educated stupid! Burn the marshmallow!
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SECTIONS
01:38 - An Introduction & an Overview
03:45 - The Time Cube Theory
07:17 - GMT, ONEism, Marshmallow Time & Belly Button Logic
09:46 - Unicorns Are Evil & Easter Island is Bad
11:27 - It's All About the Four (Burritos & Tacos Are Evil)
12:19 - Some Obvious Refutations
13:27 - The Time Cube Website - Green Ink, Haig's Law, Santa Claus & Design Considerations
17:27 - He Was a Busy Bee - Four Websites, Actually (Musings on Religion & Race)
19:48 - The Time Cube Law
21:07 - The Man Himself - Marbles & Maybe Mental Illness
24:31 - Not So Harmless - Ray's Views on Blacks, Jews & Gays
27:17 - The Fan: Richard Janczarski
30:36 - Man as Meme
33:01 - Parodies & Theories (Satire, Sock Puppets & More)
Music by Fanette Ronjat
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PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER.
40 min
May 27, 2020The Lucifer Project(s): Big Scary in Sky
Episode 07 | The Lucifer Project(s): Big Scary in Sky!
Space might not be such a final frontier after all. Is the Vatican secretly in league with aliens? Or demons pretending to be aliens? Was Jesus an extraterrestrial? Is NASA trying to create a second sun in our solar system? These questions and more must be examined. And when you name your science project "Lucifer", you really should be all that surprised when people come up with conspiracy theories about it.
NOTE: APOLOGIES FOR THIS EPISODE - THE SOUND, EDITING AND WRITNG ARE NOT OF VERY HIGH QUALITY. WE WILL REMAKE THIS ONE DAY.
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SECTIONS
02:03 - Version One - Sectarian Shenanigans
04:48 - Embellishments to the Core Theory
06:55 - The Actual Poop - What's in a Name?
08:15 - Version Two - Two Suns in the Sunset
08:37 - Galileo, Galileo!
10:50 - The Strange Worlds of Richard Hoagland
16:17 - Cassini, Figaro!
17:21 - Puzzlin' Evidence - (In)Congruent Conflations
19:19 - Conspiracy Smoothies & Salvation
21:11 - BONUS CONSPIRACIES! The Shining: All Work & No Play Makes Bill Gates a Satanic Murderer
21:30 - Lucifer & the Bible
25:40 - Pastor Rick Wiles Wants to Explore Bill Gate's Rectum
29:43 - ID2020
30:44 - The Lucifer Trust & Publishing House (Don't Play With Other People's Baals)
33:16 - Nikita Mikhalkov Wants an Oscar (Apparently)
Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
33:16 - I say that Mikhalkov has never won an Oscar. This is not true - his 1994 film "Burnt by the Sun" did win Best Foreign Language film. See? You shouldn't just trust everything you hear - check things out for yourself. The "theory" developed here still stands, though - he wants another Oscar, this time for Best Picture.
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38 min
May 13, 2020The Tuskegee Study (The World is Weird 1)
Episode 06 | The Tuskegee Study (The World is Weird 1)
The tale of a 40-year clinical study with overtones of both race and class, shows just what some people are willing to do once they have otherized their fellow humans. If they're willing to do that, the reasoning goes, what else might they be willing to do? This builds distrust, which feeds conspiracy theories.
This is the shameful story of the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male. A true thing that happened, because the world is weird.
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SECTIONS
02:47 - What Is Syphilis? Signs, Symptoms & Stages
05:52 - A Short History of Detection & Treatment
06:44 - The Lay of the Land, Pre-Tuskegee
08:45 - The Tuskegee Study Begins
13:26 - Despite the Henderson Act, the Study Continues
14:47 - A Whistleblower & an Ending
16:17 - The Government Reacts
20:01 - We Did Nothing Wrong - We Just Targeted Poor People
21:34 - Not the Only Such Study
23:16 - A Pattern of Racially Motivated Abuse by the Medical Establishment
24:38 - African Americans Get Worse Healthcare
26:56 - A Bit of Both - Poverty & Race Go Hand in Hand in the US
Music by Fanette Ronjat
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31 min
April 29, 202044 for 44: The Obama Conspiracies (Thanks, Obama!)
Episode 05 | 44 for 44: The Obama Conspiracies (Thanks, Obama!)
The 44th US President sure had a lot of theories about him. Was he really a cocaine-fueled, murdering, gay, inter-dimensional, Satanic, Mars-visiting lizard who could control the weather?
Every leader of a country, or anyone that much in the public eye, is sure to engender a number of conspiracy theories. But the 44th president, Barack Obama, sure seemed to get more than his fair share of them. Some were almost certainly externally expressed fears of black retribution, or good old fashioned racism, while others were clearly just slanderous disinformation by those who opposed him politically and philosophically.
But, boy oh boy, some of the rumors were real doozies.
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SECTIONS
02:53 - (Not) Born in the U.S.A. and/or Racist Black Radical: Passports, Parricide, Nose Jobs, Wakanda Forever, Whitey Shade of Pale, Arm & Hammer and the 3%
09:42 - Obamahu Akbar: Wright is Wrong, Madrasa Days, Book Swap, My Shahada, Prayer Curtains, Follow the Money, Tongue-Tied, a Secret Kabul, Brotherhood in Arms, Open Borders, T.S. Hate-a-lot
17:41 - Commie Issues: Flags, Pledges, Island Hopping, Seeds for Recession, Brainwashing - Kid's Menu, a Plethora of Plots
23:23 - Big Fat Liar: Jobs Truthers, Breitbart Bloodshed, Specious Slaying, Zero Dark Phony, Deep State Horizon, Aurora False Flagealis, Ghostwriter Story, Barack O'Dumba, Obama Svengala
29:56 - Really Not One of Us: Adulterer, Drug Money, On the Down Low, Married a Man, Gay Cocaine Orgy Murder, Michael Obama and the Death of Joan Rivers, Test Tube Superman, Controls the Weather (Tech and/or Magic), Lizard, Antichrist, Went to Mars
43:44 - It's All True: Books Both Serious and Not
Music by Fanette Ronjat
Guest vocal by Cinna Bantegnie Ronjat at 43:44
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
12:17 - I mispronounced the word "shahada" due to a typo in my notes.
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47 min
April 15, 2020Saddam’s Stargate and Taskforce 20
Episode 04 | Saddam's Stargate and Taskforce 20
Host: Derek DeWitt
The United States went into Iraq to stop Saddam Hussein from using and/or developing Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs). They meant chemical and biological weapons, but what if the WMDs were something else? What if Hussein had found ancient alien technology that allowed him to communicate with an ancient race of extraterrestrials who live on a hidden planet in our solar system and was planning on bringing them here to Earth? What if he had a stargate, and the invasion was actually to shut it down?
Hadn't thought of that one, had you?
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SECTIONS
02:01 - Anunnaki on Heaven's Door - Exopolitics Explains All
07:30 - Needle in a Haystack (Hide and Seek in the Desert)
10:30 - Seize the Gate - Taskforce 20 Gets Busy
16:22 - Not Just a Stargate
18:01 - Pic-a-Little, Talk-a-Little - Rumours Abound
20:32 - You Can't Get There From Here
21:54 - Everyone Gets a Stargate!
27:41 - That's (Not Really) Entertainment
Music by Fanette Ronjat
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PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER.
32 min
April 15, 2020Misinformation & Pattern Recognition (Because Reasons 1)
Episode 03 | Misinformation & Pattern Recognition (Because Reasons 1)
Why are conspiracy theories so popular with so many? This series of shorter episodes will look at different factors that may be responsible for conspiracy theories taking root in the public consciousness and how they spread with modern communications tools. Along the way, we'll look at motivations, science, psychology and more.
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SECTIONS
01:26 - Some Stats on Conspiracy Beliefs in the US (2019)
03:14 - JFK - The Gateway Drug of Conspiracies
05:20 - LBJ & HST
07:42 - Communications Technologies
09:50 - Theories and Mis- & Disinformation
11:34 - How Misinformation Spreads
12:20 - Two Stories from Genesis
18:16 - Humans Are Pattern-Seeking
19:10 - The Law of Fives, the 23 Enigma and Apophenia
21:32 - Pattern-Seeking + Big Brains + Internet = Conspiracies
Music by Fanette Ronjat
NEXT BECAUSE REASONS: True Fictions
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PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER.
24 min
April 15, 2020A Cavalcade of COVID-19 Crackpottery
Episode 02 | A Cavalcade of COVID-19 Crackpottery
The year 2020 has started off being defined by the global spread of the COVID-19 human coronavirus, but it's not just the illness that's spreading - misinformation, disinformation, misconceptions and outright lies are also on a worldwide tour aided and abetted by social media.
We'll take a look at some of the more pervasive ideas out there, tracing them back to their sources like good epidemiologists, and also think about ways we can inoculate ourselves and others against the noise.
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SECTIONS
02:27 - What is COVID-19?
03:47 - Milestones - How We Got Where We Are
05:25 - Bio-weapon (Chinese)
11:41 - Bio-weapon (American)
18:50 - Bio-weapon (Jewish)
20:57 - Population Control
21:47 - Espionage
22:37 - A Petri Dish of Other Origins
25:04 - Postmodern Snake Oil - Preventatives & Cures
29:35 - A Selfish Justification for Masks
30:34 - Fake Silver Linings
31:32 - Mis-& disinformation, both have consequences
33:36 - How to Combat the Crackpottery
40:29 - Memes Are Viruses
41:46 - Next Steps
Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE:
At 29:33, we may have mispronounced Jonathan Sather's name. We don't really care, but full disclosure.
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PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER.
44 min

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A rather skeptical look at conspiracies and mysteries. Each episode will examine conspiracy theories, most of which are not true, a few of which might be a little bit true and even a couple that…