In this episode Jeff and Jesse are joined by a special intrepid reporter to discuss:

1. China’s complicated behavior regarding geopolitics and foreign interference

2. Global attitudes towards China and its people in the wake of Covid-19 and the wave of anti-Chinese and anti-Asian racism that followed

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1. Some conspiracy theories turn out to be true. What are conspiracies, conspiracy theories, and super conspiracies?

2. Pareidolia, Apophenia, and pattern recognition gone wrong

3. The surprisingly interesting conspiracy theory of an uneducated bumpkin who became one of the most famous writers in history

In this episode Jeff and Jesse discuss:

1. What is an echo chamber and how do people get stuck in them?

2. The problems of trying to present a “balanced” view on unbalanced topics

3. The various influences and evolving ideas that led to Jung’s synchronicity

In this episode, Jeff and Jesse discuss:

1. A review of the history of Havana Syndrome

2. A timeline of Russian research into microwave technology

3. Does Russia really have a new secret weapon?

In this episode Jeff and Jesse discuss:

1. Dancing plagues and other mass psychogenic illnesses around the globe

2. Different culture-bound syndromes and theories about how they form and why they exist

In this episode Jeff and Jesse discuss:

1. Media consumption and mental health

2. Russel Brand, Eminem, and Howard Zinn on being neutral on a moving train

3. Why we live in a hypernormalized world

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In this episode Jeff and Jesse discuss:

1. Social engineering, propaganda, and Edward Bernays

2. How algorithms and social media can radicalize

3. Culture, memetics, and influence

In this episode Jeff and Jesse discuss:

1. Culture and semantics of organic foods

2. The Environmental Working Group – What they get right and wrong including the clean fifteen and the dirty dozen

3. The actual benefits of organic farming and foods

In this episode Jeff and Jesse discuss:

1. Origins of fear and hysteria around GMOs

2. The scientific consensus on GMOs and how it gets reported

3. The controversy between Greenpeace, Golden Rice, and other GMOs

In this episode, Jesse and Jeff discuss:

1. Crash diets and food fads in the last century

2. The origins and science behind the Paleolithic diet and the Ketogenic diet