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Only 2 and a half years late, this interview with Callie Wright for the Hardcore Skeptic series on social justice is still as relevant and worth publishing as it ever was. Society hasn't suddenly fixed itself since we talked and if anything it's gotten more important that we talk about this stuff and acknowledge how much farther we still have to go. Here are some links for Callie's stuff http://www.thegaytheistmanifesto.com https://www.facebook.com/TheGaytheistManifesto/ https://twitter.com/thegaytheists https://twitter.com/calliegetsit Background photo credit Jon Tyson on Unsplash For anything else you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net You can follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group, search for The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/Brainstormpodcastfriends. You can sign up for our newsletter at https://www.brainstormblog.net/newsletter Or you can follow me on twitter @ha

In this episode of the Skeptic Studio Cory talked to Kevin Watson about Libertarian Socialism which to a lot of Americans may sound like a contradiction but for someone like Kevin it fits very well. A lot of Kevin's views match up pretty good with mine so we had a great chat.  You should check out the book he recommended, The Dispossessed. (I know that Amazon sucks but here's the link for it anyway) https://amzn.to/2Qyakma  Also here are the links to the Youtubers we talked about https://www.youtube.com/user/ContraPoints  https://www.youtube.com/user/xaxie1  https://www.youtube.com/user/thephilosophytube  Mexie  https://www.youtube.com/user/petercoffin    And here are a couple links for Kevin's content https://twitter.com/LibSocScientist  https://www.facebook.com/ThatSJWTheyWarnedAbout/    For anything else you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net You can follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group, search for The

In this episode of the Shift To Reason Radio, Cory, Lisa, Rene, Dan, and Dave talk Religious Nuttery, Woo, Politics, and Hate. This is from our November 23rd show. Links    Religious Nuttery Rene’s Story – https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/ev3vqp/an-untouched-tribe-killed-9– the-missionary-trying-to-convert-them? Rene’s Story – http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/texas-pastor-says-concert-by-devil-worshipping-band-ghost-is-not-healthy-for-our-community  Woo Report Cory’s Story – https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-nutrition/carnivore-diet-beefy-leap-faith Science Lisa’s Story - https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/hemimastigotes-supra-kingdom-1.4715823  Politics Dan’s Story - https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/nothing-on-this-page-is-real-how-lies-become-truth-in-online-america/2018/11/17/edd44cc8-e85a-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html  New segment on Hatred and Violence Dave’s Story - https://globalnews.ca/news/4673240/ontario-pc-recognize-gender-identity/ Related article https://www.nature.com/article

In this one Cory, Dan, Rene, Lisa, and Dave talk about how we talk to the opposition about climate change, among other things. Then they talk about Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and how she deals with Republican trolls. Then you get our What's the Deal segment on globalism and Cory rants about mainstream media conspiracies. What’s the deal with globalism? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_(conspiracy_theory) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/us/politics/globalism-right-trump.html https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/explaining-rights-obsession-george-soros/572401/ For anything else you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net You can follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group, search for The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/Brainstormpodcastfriends. You can sign up for our newsletter at https://www.brainstormblog.ne

In this episode Cory, Rene, Lisa, Dan, and Dave talked to Dr. Jen Gunter about topics related to health, pseudoscience, and misinformation. It was a great chat and Dr. Gunter was an awesome guest. Here are some links to her stuff https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/ https://twitter.com/DrJenGunter    Here are some of the the references she recommended https://www.nlm.nih.gov/ https://www.aap.org/en-us/Pages/Default.aspx https://www.acog.org/ https://sogc.org/ Here's a link to the goat testicle guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley    For anything else you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net You can follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group, search for The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/Brainstormpodcastfriends.  You can sign up for our newsletter at https://www.brainstormblog.net/newsletter  Or you can follow me on twitter @hardcoreskeptic  Thanks to our financial

In this episode of Shift To Reason Radio, Cory, Rene, Sarah, and Dave talk about Halal soup, ghost sex, alien probes, animal vaccines for anthrax, the science of pot in your bloodstream, and yet another incel who murdered people. Links for stories    WTF!? Rene’s Story - https://www.facebook.com/woodbine777/posts/10160845178880063 Woo Report Dave’s Story - https://nypost.com/2018/10/30/woman-who-had-sex-with-20-ghosts-is-now-engaged-to-a-spirit  Cory’s Story – https://ktla.com/2018/11/05/mystery-object-that-sped-past-earth-last-year-could-be-probe-sent-by-aliens-harvard-researchers-say/  Sarah’s Story - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/i-hunted-ghosts-regina-centennial-mall-1.4883017  Science Sarah’s Story - https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/vaccine-protects-animals-against-anthrax-plague Daves’s Story - https://mic.com/articles/168783/how-long-does-marijuana-stay-in-your-system-how-thc-blood-tests-work-and-what-you-should-know  New segment on Hatred and Violence Cory’s Story - h

In this episode of the Brainstorm Rectable, Cory, Sarah, Rene, and Dave talk about some of the stuff from a few days after the midterm elections in the US, Brazil's new fascist leader, and Cory does a rant about the danger of the far right. Here are some links https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/06/us/elections/results-house-elections.html  Brazil links https://www.facebook.com/tanyasau/posts/10110737942059853 https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2018/10/christian-fascism-comes-to-brazil-new-president-bolsonaro-promises-christian-theocracy https://www.facebook.com/ShujiAli/videos/10156841268947210/  https://youtu.be/Diap_PMN-p0 I also highly recommend this episode of Revolutionary Left Radio discussing Brazil https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/battleground-brazil-jair-bolsonaro-the-military-dictatorship-fascism  For anything else you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net You can follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brains

In this episode of the Skeptic Studio Cory, Sarah, Rene, and Dave talk to Kavin Senapathy. Kavin is very well known in skeptical circles for her blogs and her book The Fear Babe: Shattering Vani Hari's Glass House. Kavin and the crew talk about the state of skepticism and some recent events that make it seem like some parts of the skeptic movement are a little out of touch. Here are some links for her stuff https://scimoms.com/  https://twitter.com/ksenapathy https://www.facebook.com/Ksenapathy/ https://www.facebook.com/pointofinquiry/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/kavinsenapathy/#1805a5d73782 https://amzn.to/2yUzP6a https://www.facebook.com/ScienceMomsDoc/    For anything else you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net You can follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group, search for The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/Brainstormpodcastfriends  Or you can follow me on twitter @hardco

In this episode of The Skeptic Studio Cory talked to Dr. Edwin Hodge from the University of Victoria in British Colombia. They discussed various extremist groups, some links between ways they approach the world, and some of the history behind them. Here is a link to the last time Cory talked to Dr. Hodge https://www.brainstormblog.net/the-hardcore-skeptic-examines/2017/5/21/an-academic-talks-social-justice You may also find Cory's interview with David Neiwert interesting and relevant to the subject https://www.brainstormblog.net/the-skeptic-studio/rightwingextremism-davidneiwert or Cory's recent blog article/podcast rant on the subject https://www.brainstormblog.net/blog-entries/riseofthefarright Credit for portions of this image goes to Anthony Crider; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:37, 9 April 2018 (UTC) [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons For anything else you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net You can follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, chec

 In this episode of Skeptic Voices I talked to Michael Smith from the Poorly Summarized podcast. He was on The Skeptic Studio in the past and I thought it would a lot of fun to talk to him again. He's a good guy and we had a great chat about a lot of things.  You can find Michael on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. https://www.facebook.com/michael.l.smith.391  https://twitter.com/probablyforsale  https://www.instagram.com/goodlordzilla/?hl=en  For anything else you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net You can follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group, search for The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/Brainstormpodcastfriends  Or you can follow me on twitter @hardcoreskeptic  Thanks to our financial supporters, Kayla, Janet, Kim, Stephanie, Zach, The Utah Outcasts(x2), Will, Aaron, Darryl, Destin sucks, BobbGlenn, Destin Doesn’t Suck That Much, Magnus, Several Species of small furr

In this episode of Shift To Reason Radio Cory, Lisa, Rene, and Dave talk about a bunch of stuff but most importantly they talk about the day that pot became legal and some of the issues that brought up. Here are all the links for stories Woo Report Rene’s Story - https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evw7ne/tom-delonges-ufo-organization-is-37-million-in-debt Dave’s Story- https://www.popsci.com/polygraph-test-science Lisa’s Story - https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2018/10/13/i-reviewed-all-161-of-goops-wellness-products-for-pseudoscience-heres-what-i-found/ Rene’s Story - https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/mbdwnp/witch-hex-brett-kavanaugh Science Lisa’s Story - https://www.sciencealert.com/lots-of-christmas-music-could-be-bad-for-our-mental-health Cory’s Story – http://time.com/5430203/new-study-not-exercising-worse-than-smoking/ Politics Dave’s Story - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marijuana-faq-legalization-need-to-know-1.4862207 Cory’s Story - https://splinternews.com/the-activists-waging

In this episode of the Rectable, Cory, Rene, Lisa, and Dave talk about Elizabeth Warren and her supposedly Indigenous ancestry, some of the recent right wing terror attacks, and a new segment called What's the Deal. This time around for What's the Deal we talk about rape culture. Hint: It's bad.  Here are some resources for these topics https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2018/10/16/claims-that-us-is-a-genetic-melting-pot-appear-overblown-if-youre-white/?mc_cid=e18402a57a&mc_eid=3b2e1845c4 https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/15/17978144/elizabeth-warren-dna-test-native-american-genetics-ancestry-culture-identity-politics https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/kim-tallbear-elizabeth-warren-dna-results-indigenous-identity-1.4863903 https://theslot.jezebel.com/our-vote-matters-very-little-kim-tallbear-on-elizabeth-1829783321 https://wakelet.com/wake/57e215e9-3566-4d4e-9fc7-a9d844bb504c What’s the Deal with Rape Culture? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_culture http://www.wavaw.ca/what-is-rape-culture/ https://www.

As soon as I listened to his book, Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in Trump's America, I knew that I wanted to talk to David Neiwert. He has covered far right extremists for various news outlets for decades and has written about hate crimes and extremist groups for a long time as well. In this episode I talked to him about the extremist right, some of the history of them, and how that plays into current events. It was a very interesting chat and I think David does a great job of highlighting the danger presented by the far right. Here are some links to David's work https://www.splcenter.org/HATEWATCH https://twitter.com/DavidNeiwert http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/ https://amzn.to/2SnNUBj https://www.amazon.ca/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&field-author=David+Neiwert&search-alias=books-ca    For anything else you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net You can follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion g

In this episode of The Skeptic Studio, Cory, Rene, Lisa, and Dave talked to Dr. Jillian Scudder who is an author, a blogger, and assistant professor at Oberlin College about space, education, and the mix of science and politics. Here are some links to her content https://www.jillianscudder.com/ https://astroquizzical.com/  https://www.forbes.com/sites/jillianscudder/#5f566b84216b http://astroquizzical.tumblr.com/ https://amzn.to/2q18Ktb  Here is a link to listener Ivan's critiques of astrology and lunar effects  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan_Kelly2     For anything else you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net You can follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group, search for The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/Brainstormpodcastfriends  Or you can follow me on twitter @hardcoreskeptic  Thanks to our financial supporters, Kayla, Janet, Kim, Stephanie, Zach, The Utah Outca

 In this episode of Shift to Reason Radio we talk about some seriously WTF!? stories, some Woo, some science, and some politics. A little bit of everything from Cory, Sarah, Lisa, Angela, and Dave. Plus we had a lot of fun with the Discord chat so make sure to join us for live shows and chat with us while listening live.   Here are the links for the stories WTF Dave’s Story - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/oct/06/1600-scientists-sign-petition-against-cern-physicist-alessandro-strumia-open-discrimination http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2018/10/02/italian-physicist-suspended-by-cern-after-giving-a-talk-claiming-mens-brains-are-more-suited-to-science-than-womens Cory’s Story - https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-tuesday-edition-1.4855614/viral-video-of-feminist-pouring-bleach-on-manspreaders-debunked-as-russian-propaganda-1.4855973 https://euvsdisinfo.eu/viral-manspreading-video-is-staged-kremlin-propaganda/ Woo Report Angela’s Story- http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/09/30/a-f

In this episode of the Rectable Cory, Angela, Lisa, Sarah, and Dave talk about the whether we should act in a civil way to those we disagree with in politics. I don't have any source links for this episode. For anything else you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net You can follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group, search for The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/Brainstormpodcastfriends  Or you can follow me on twitter @hardcoreskeptic  Thanks to our financial supporters, Kayla, Janet, Kim, Stephanie, Zach, The Utah Outcasts(x2), Will, Aaron, Darryl, Destin sucks, BobbGlenn, Destin Doesn’t Suck That Much, Magnus, Several Species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave, Positively Skeptical, Rob, Keith Clownhorning Davies, The Podunk Polymath, The Flying Spaghetti Monster (Sauce Be Upon Him), Freethinker215, and Larry(x2). If you want to join them and help the show gr

Sorry this isn't as early as I wanted it to be. Life has been crazy In this episode of The Skeptic Studio Cory, Angela, Lisa, Sarah, and the amazing Dave talked to Kevin from This Week In News and This Week In History with Kevin and Benedict. The topics ranged from silly to serious and back again.  Some links for Kevin's content   http://kevinandbenedict.com/ https://www.facebook.com/kevinandbenedict/ https://twitter.com/kevandbenedict   Kevin sent a link for one of the things we talked about with him https://twitter.com/real_farmacist/status/1050848947621777409    For anything else you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net You can follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group, search for The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/Brainstormpodcastfriends  Or you can follow me on twitter @hardcoreskeptic  Thanks to our financial supporters, Kayla, Janet, Kim, Stephanie, Zach, The Utah Outc

In this episode of The Skeptic Studio, Cory talked to HJ Hornbeck who has done quite a bit of writing for his blog on the recent attempted hoax by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose. We go through some of the reasons it didn't quite prove as much as they think it did.  Here are some links   http://www.patheos.com/blogs/driventoabstraction/2018/10/academic-hoax-intellectual-dishonesty https://freethoughtblogs.com/reprobate/2018/10/03/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed/ https://freethoughtblogs.com/reprobate/2018/10/05/out-of-control/ https://freethoughtblogs.com/reprobate/2018/10/06/this-isnt-incompetence/ https://freethoughtblogs.com/reprobate/2018/10/10/the-problemsolution-gap/ https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/grievance-studies-hoax-not-academic-scandal.html http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jpbs/papers/Vol13-issue5/Version-1/A1305010104.pdf https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gdb3QAJtyixuNTvDFBBvh__LQD4gLTJj/view http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.htm

In this installment of the Shift To Reason Radio, Cory, Lisa, Sarah, Dan, and the always amazing Dave talk about religious people who see monsters and are fooled by doctored photos, the impact of crowdfunding on quack cancer cures, myths about hysteria treatments, and the chicken pox vaccine being important. There's also the new Crackpot Audio segment.  Here are the links Crackpot Audio  Paul Joseph Watson (right wing crackpot) defends musician Michale Graves from those evil leftists who don’t want to provide a platform for shitheads https://youtu.be/bnf1WJICAxg http://www.vueweekly.com/up-downtown-michale-graves-and-the-line-drawn/  https://www.thestar.com/edmonton/2018/09/19/edmontons-up-and-downtown-festival-cancels-performance-over-singers-backwards-views.html  Religious Nuttery Dan’s Story - https://leaderpost.com/news/canada/police-were-monsters-who-would-kill-them-details-emerge-in-naked-kidnapping/wcm/7a6f41a5-cde2-44de-a9da-24c25078e8ac Dave’s Story- http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/09/26/prea

In the first episode of Skeptic Voices in a long time I talked to Stephanie Zvan a couple days after her birthday. We talked about Secular Women Work, organizing conferences, and politics.  You can follow Stephanie on Twitter and on her blog https://the-orbit.net/almostdiamonds/ https://twitter.com/szvan    For anything else you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net You can follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group, search for The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/Brainstormpodcastfriends  Or you can follow me on twitter @hardcoreskeptic  Thanks to our financial supporters, Kayla, Janet, Kim, Stephanie, Zach, The Utah Outcasts, Will, Aaron, Darryl, Destin sucks, BobbGlenn, Destin Doesn’t Suck That Much, Magnus, Several Species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave, Positively Skeptical, Rob, Keith, The Podunk Polymath, Larry, The Flying Spaghetti Monster (Sauce Be Upo