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  • Autism and Moral Rigidity

    This week Eric leads the team (sans Kevin) in a discussion on a book he's reading, Dell discusses a study on autistic people and morality, and Cory talks a little bit about some issues with the Biden cabinet picks

    https://variety.com/2020/film/news/elliot-page-transgender-ellen-page-juno-umbrella-academy-1234843023/

     

    Thoughts on Biden’s cabinet picks

    https://discourseblog.com/biden-cabinet-progressives/

     

    https://neuroclastic.com/2020/11/07/autistic-people-care-too-much-research-says/

    https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2020/11/09/JNEUROSCI.1237-20.2020 

     

    Thanks for listening

     

    1 hr 13 min
  • Pink Pineapples, Anti-Indigenous Racism, Bolivia, and More Qanon

    Some links to our stories

    https://news.yahoo.com/feds-bust-militia-plot-kidnap-155859915.html

     

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/10/militias-domestic-terrorists-gretchen-whitmer?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1602349044

     

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-rcmp-criticized-for-inaction-after-mob-violently-attacks-mikmaq/

     

    https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/the-facts-behind-mikmaw-fishing-rights/

     

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/23/biden-treisman-assassination-plot/

     

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/abortion-geneva-consensus-declaration-trump-pompeo-azar-us-saudi-arabia-uganda-b1250419.html

     

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/bolivia-election-evo-arce-mesa-camacho/2020/10/18/205b6b5c-0f11-11eb-8a35-237ef1eb2ef7_story.html

     

    https://www.popsugar.com/food/What-Pink-Pineapple-43551645

     

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    1 hr 10 min
  • Healthcare, Fishing Rights, and Badass Women

    No notes for this episode as we just kind of talked current events off the top of our heads but make sure to follow us @skeptarchypod on Twitter, on Facebook at Skeptarchy, and share the show around and tell them to listen. 

    1 hr 27 min
  • Masks, Suicide, and the Recycling Scam

    In this episode, Cory, Dell, Kevin, and Eric talk about masks, a protest for action on suicides in Saskatchewan, and corporations passing the responsibilities of their production onto consumers

    Cory’s Notes (@hardcoreskeptic)

    Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Linked to More Than 260,000 Coronavirus Cases, Economists Estimate

    https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/09/09/how-did-mask-wearing-become-so-politicized/

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/black-lives-matter-protests-have-not-led-to-a-spike-in-coronavirus-cases-research-says-1.4997503

    Video from Minute Physics

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=Y47t9qLc9I4

     

    The rest of our notes will be finished as soon as we hae some time, thanks for your patience. 

    1 hr 38 min
  • EP 1 - David Graeber, Organic Nazis, and Qanon

    Cory, Dell, and Kevin talk about the passing and legacy of David Graeber, the link between fascists and organic farming, and the Trump worshiping cult known as Qanon

    Cory's notes (@hardcoreskeptic)

    https://www.dailydot.com/debug/who-is-qanon-jim-watkins-rumors/

    We Are Not Going to Fact-Check Our Way Out of QAnon https://nyti.ms/2QRYelt

    https://soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous

     

    Kevin’s notes: (@ancomscicomm)

    David Graeber Dead: Anthropologist & Anti-Capitalist Thinker Behind ‘We Are the 99%’ Slogan Dies at 59 - https://heavy.com/news/2020/09/david-graeber/

    How David Graeber Changed the Way We See Money - https://newrepublic.com/article/159227/david-graeber-changed-way-see-money

    A Jewish Goodbye to David Graeber - 

    https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/09/david-graeber-obituary-judaism

    “We Are the 99%”: Occupy Wall Street Activist & Author David Graeber, Dead at 59, in His Own Words - https://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/4/rip_david_graeber

     

    Dell’s notes: (@moarcowbelle)

    https://theconversation.com/the-roots-of-organic-farming-lie-in-fascism-81448

    http://www.agbioworld.org/newsletter_wm/index.php?caseid=archive&newsid=589
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-14/natural-food-and-nazis-fascism/10236768
    https://humanities.wustl.edu/features/Corinna-Treitel-Eating-Nature
    https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-bio-nazis-go-green-natural-farming-right-wing-extremism/
    https://edgeeffects.net/organic-farmings-political-history/

    https://facingtoday.facinghistory.org/examining-nazi-environmentalism-during-earth-week

    https://www.npr.org/books/titles/138018738/crunchy-cons-how-birkenstocked-burkeans-gun-loving-organic-gardeners-evangelical
    http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/bwep/colloquium/papers/Sayre_Politics%20of%20org%20ag.pdf
    https://social-ecology.org/wp/2018/11/grace-gershuny-on-the-evolution-of-the-organic-food-movement/

     

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    1 hr 17 min

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