Hey are you tired of all the culture war bullshit? Do you like Christmas but hate that conservatives are trying to convince you you're under attack from imaginary communists? Well good news! The War on Christmas is a myth invented by white supremacists. Come join us as we discuss how the War on Christmas came to be and what it means for the rest of us.

In this episode Bhi and Sophie talk about how we know for a fact that the moon landing is real and take a stab at understanding why so many people fall for conspiracy theories like the Moon Landing. 

Sources:
Launius, Roger D. Reaching for the Moon: A Short History of the Space Race. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2019.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/12/18/78549401.html?pageNumber=30

https://gen.medium.com/the-moon-landing-hoax-theory-started-as-a-joke-5a8e66e15d56

https://web.archive.org/web/20130128101904/http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/fe-scidi.htm

Plait, Philip C. Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing 'Hoax'. Wiley, New York, 2002.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc-20100413-apollo15-LRRR.html

https://www.thehistoryreader.com/military-history/much-stalin-know/

https://theconversation.com/how-moon-landing-conspiracy-theories-began-and-why-they-persist-today-118643

Fisher, Mark. Capitalist Realism: Is there no Alternative? John Hunt Publishing, Lanham, 2009

In this episode Bhi and Sophie talk about the people who love physics but don't understand it at all, and try to understand how one of the greatest scientific achievements in human history has become an object of derision for so-called skeptics.

Sources:
Launius, Roger D. Reaching for the Moon: A Short History of the Space Race. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2019.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/12/18/78549401.html?pageNumber=30

https://gen.medium.com/the-moon-landing-hoax-theory-started-as-a-joke-5a8e66e15d56

https://web.archive.org/web/20130128101904/http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/fe-scidi.htm

Plait, Philip C. Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing 'Hoax'. Wiley, New York, 2002.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc-20100413-apollo15-LRRR.html

https://www.thehistoryreader.com/military-history/much-stalin-know/

https://theconversation.com/how-moon-landing-conspiracy-theories-began-and-why-they-persist-today-118643

Fisher, Mark. Capitalist Realism: Is there no Alternative? John Hunt Publishing, Lanham, 2009

In this episode, we discuss the History channel: the network most dedicated to conspiracy theories. 
We also discuss our personal experiences with the shows on History and what's so dangerous about "just asking questions".

This episode is continuation of part 1, both of which are about the conspiracies surrounding the Freemasons. Sources are in the description for the first episode!

In this first episode Sophie and Bhí discuss the real history and associated conspiracy theories about the Freemasons: The chief daddy of secret societies. 


Sources:

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ucb/reader.action?docID=1594281&query=

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43005770

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=hXq4lJeX_DUC&oi=fnd&pg=PA273&dq=free+mason+conspiracy&ots=1ZhbcSRkDH&sig=54m7BL6CfGQETkyDDyTKOwewIgg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiR_67FleiE

https://web.archive.org/web/20140119092612/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=WasFi36.xml&images=images%2Fmodeng&data=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fparsed&tag=public&part=388&division=div1

https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/books/LightonMasonry_10436972

https://www.nytimes.com/1881/06/22/archives/william-morgans-bones-a-skeleton-found-in-a-quarry-in-genesee.html