The Adam Bomb

In this episode, Adam discusses some of the benefits of going without food, and talks about some of the interesting studies that have been done on it. He also mentions a few things he's learned about doing it himself that might help make your fasts easier.

This is basically about a scientific paper on how to correct  misinformation, written by five researchers. The scientists look at the  studies available on what is actually effective when correcting  misinformation, and how to prevent the backfire effect (when your  efforts to change someone's mind makes them even more firmly convinced  they were right to begin with).

This is a summary of what I thought were the best parts of the book, "Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them," plus a few extra comments from me. The book is a collection of chapters written by 31 different authors, all of whom are experts on conspiracy theories, but in different fields, including political scientists, psychologists, sociologists, and historians. Although most of the chapters are written like scientific papers (academic language and lots of citations), the book is fascinating.

This is an excerpt from a longer podcast, recorded 12 April 2020. In this segment, we talked about theories about the pharmaceutical industry, and whether Bill Gates' commitment to vaccinations is suspicious or just practical.