Brainstorm Podcast

In this episode of the Skeptic Studio Cory, Angela, Lisa, Leo, Brandon, and the amazing Dave talk to Mandisa Thomas. Mandisa is the founder and president of Black Non-Believers. She tells us about herself and some of the struggles she's had to face because of her identity.  Here are some links to find her https://www.patreon.com/mandisalateefah  https://blacknonbelievers.wordpress.com/ https://blacknonbelievers.wordpress.com/a-word-from-our-president/ http://www.aahumanism.net/stories/view/mandisa_thomas https://www.cnn.com/2015/03/28/living/black-atheist-confession/index.html https://americanhumanist.org/what-we-do/speakers-bureau/mandisa-thomas/ https://www.atheists.org/people/mandisa-thomas/ https://youtu.be/-B0SuDwlilU https://twitter.com/mandy0904 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandisa_Thomas As for the rest you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net Follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group; The Brainstorm Pod

In this one the Cory, Rene, Lisa , Brandon, and Dave talk about the Santa Fe shooting and its connection to incels and then of course they discuss the intellectual dark web and Jordan B. Peterson.  Here are some links https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/style/jordan-peterson-12-rules-for-life.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/18/opinions/santa-fe-shooting-was-different-kayyem/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/18/us/texas-school-shooting/index.html https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/20/santa-fe-shooting-suspect-dimitrios-pagourtzis-motive http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5749709/Texas-school-shooter-killed-girl-turned-advances.html?ito=social-facebook Also this https://www.facebook.com/SBSAustralia/videos/1969246553094984/?hc_ref=ARSIiOXaymAw4z1aX0nqxwGykTFksL0AgqihXm2vv-uIoi0xEAHMtZPwoODzFHYQsOk And the intellectual dark web https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html As for the rest you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net Follow the show on twitter @brainst

 In this episode of the Brainstorm Shift To Reason Radio, Cory, Rene, Lisa, Brandon, and the always amazing Dave cover stories about stargates, pot, the NFL, and eggs. It's quite the mix of topics and a lot of fun. Here are some links Rene’s Story - https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/533gxx/there-are-people-who-think-the-west-invaded-iraq-over-a-stargate?utm_source=vicefbus  Lisa’s Story - https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/marijuana-treats-vaccine-adverse-effects/  Fuck You Brandon’s Story- http://www.fox5dc.com/sports/nfl-discussing-possible-steps-to-deal-with-anthem-protests-1  Science Lisa’s Story #2 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180521184702.htm  As for the rest you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net Follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group; The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1562304800464606/ or email us at mail@brainstormblog.n

This is the second Rectable portion from the May 11th live show where Cory, Angela, Brandon, Lisa, Rene, and the always amazing Dave talk about incels and then trail off onto some other subjects every now and then.  Here are some links http://haenfler.sites.grinnell.edu/subcultures-and-scenes/incels/#ffs-tabbed-11 http://www.bodyforwife.com/incels-are-a-hate-group-promoting-rape-and-murder/ https://youtu.be/zvuoD9FoRsI https://voidpod.com/podcasts/2018/5/2/ev-041-part1-siri-whats-an-incel https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/05/03/the-harpy-someone-please-tell-the-times-that-incels-are-terrorists/ https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-futrelle-incels-toronto-terrorism_us_5ae8d130e4b06748dc8d2b95?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004 http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2018/05/01/just-another-horrific-reminder-that-incels-are-a-bunch-of-wannabe-elliot-rodgers/ http://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/the-manosphere/    As for the rest you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net Follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod,

In this episode Cory, Lisa, Brandon, Rene, and the amazing Dave talk to Bob Nygaard. Bob is a private investigator who deals with psychic fraud who has recovered over 3 million dollars for his clients. It was a mind blowing chat.  Some links https://twitter.com/buncopi https://about.me/bob.nygaard https://vimeo.com/153985874 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Nygaard   As for the rest you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net  Follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group; The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1562304800464606/ or email us at mail@brainstormblog.net for your email to be read on the air. If you have a question or thoughts and want to remain anonymous then just let me know in the email or you can message me on facebook. The url for that is www.facebook.com/cjbrainstorm Remember to check out aloststateofmind.com and www.voidpod.com For more show notes check out our websi

This was a great interview with PhD political scientist and professor, Phil Klinkner (@pklinkne). I really enjoyed talking to Phil and learning more about the subject of racial resentment and comparing it to other info regarding social justice. Audio quality could be better but sometimes Skype was junk.  Here are some links.  https://theintercept.com/2017/04/06/top-democrats-are-wrong-trump-supporters-were-more-motivated-by-racism-than-economic-issues/  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/11/22/peoples-views-about-race-mattered-more-in-electing-trump-than-in-electing-obama/?utm_term=.e7e8a880f8bc https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/06/racial-anxiety-is-a-huge-driver-of-support-for-donald-trump-two-new-studies-find/?utm_term=.3671469323c4 https://www.amazon.ca/Unsteady-March-Decline-Equality-America/dp/0226443418/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1509124192&sr=8-2&keywords=philip+klinkner http://academics.hamilton.edu/government/faculty/philip-a-klinkner https:

In this episode of Shift to Reason Radio Cory, Angela, Lisa, Rene, Brandon, and the amazing Dave talk about a bunch of woo, some great stories under the F*** you category, and some legit science. You get almost double the stories this week.  Here are the links    Woo Report Brandon’s Story- https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2018/04/15/naturopath-claims-to-treat-aggression-in-children-with-diluted-dog-rabies-saliva-no-really/ http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/homeopath-claims-to-have-cured-restless-growling-child-with-rabid-dog-spit?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/complaint-filed-against-naturopath-who-gave-boy-remedy-made-from-rabid-dog-saliva-1.4627618  Rene’s Story - http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/doctor-brilliantly-slams-the-latest-bizarre-pseudoscientific-sanitary-pad-nonsense/ Lisa’s Story - https://www.sciencealert.com/flat-earth-theory-pacman-world-edge Cory’s Story -https://www.vox.com/2018/5/4/17318932/

In this episode of the Rectable, Angela takes issue with Mother's Day so Cory, Lisa, Rene, Brandon, and Dave follow where she leads. It makes for a great conversation.  There aren't really any links for this chat as we all just kind of ran off the top of our heads. As for the rest you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net  Follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group; The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1562304800464606/ or email us at mail@brainstormblog.net for your email to be read on the air. If you have a question or thoughts and want to remain anonymous then just let me know in the email or you can message me on facebook. The url for that is www.facebook.com/cjbrainstorm Remember to check out aloststateofmind.com and www.voidpod.com For more show notes check out our website www.brainstormblog.net Check out our new store online for some Brainstorm gear. It’s at https://www.t

On this episode of The Skeptic Studio, the crew (Cory, Angela, Rene, Brandon, Lisa and Dave) talk to Ian Harris aka The Skeptical Comedian. They talk about skepticism, comedy, #metoo, and why there seems to be an abundance of bad stand up coming out on Netflix and other streaming services lately.  Here are some links for Ian's stuff http://www.ianharriscomedian.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5GLNlAbEmKiabY_6qHazgw http://www.facebook.com/comediocre http://www.twitter.com/comediocre    As for the rest you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net Follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group; The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1562304800464606/ or email us at mail@brainstormblog.net for your email to be read on the air. If you have a question or thoughts and want to remain anonymous then just let me know in the email or you can message me on facebook. The url for that is www.fa

Here's another one of our talks from the 2016 Shift To Reason Conference. This one is from Will Arnal. Will is a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Regina. He talks about a few fallacies that people believe about religion and gives us a bit different perspective from those we usually see in the atheist community.  Links to find Will https://www.uregina.ca/arts/religious-studies/faculty-staff/faculty/arnal-william.html   As for the rest you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net  Follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group; The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1562304800464606/ or email us at mail@brainstormblog.net for your email to be read on the air. If you have a question or thoughts and want to remain anonymous then just let me know in the email or you can message me on facebook. The url for that is www.facebook.com/cjbrainstorm Remember to check out aloststat

This is a rebroadcast of my interview with Dr. Kristi Winters regarding feminism and social justice. They were all really good but this interview was particularly good. Kristi is a brilliant person and I think I learned quite a bit that I didn't know before and got a perspective that I hadn't entirely understood before.  New episodes of The Hardcore Skeptic Examines Social Justice are still in the works but other things slow them down quite a bit. I'm hoping to have them out before too long. Thanks for being patient.  Here are some links https://www.themarysue.com/women-86-percent-resist-trump/ https://www.youtube.com/user/drkmwinters  https://www.facebook.com/youtubedrkmwinters/ https://twitter.com/KWintie http://seriouspod.com/sio83-dr-kristi-winters/  As for the rest you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net  Follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group; The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group. https://www.facebo

Hey folks, with the technical glitches that we had during the live show we were starting way too late and gave up on doing the show. As a result we don't have any new content to share. Instead I'm going to give you this talk from the conference we held in Regina, Saskatchewan in 2016. This talk is by Lavada Luening aka The Secular She-thinker and she talked about how we can make the secular movement more appealing to women and members of minority groups. I hope you enjoy it. Some links for Lavada's stuff https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmJPQMnloZ5_BCDBnOb-rjA http://wishethinkers.org/ https://twitter.com/LaVadaLuening  http://blog.wishethinkers.org/ As for the rest you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net Follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group; The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1562304800464606/ or email us at mail@brainstormblog.net for your email to be read on the air.

In this episode of Skeptic Voices I talked to Ian Bushfield. Ian is the president of the BC Humanists Association and co-host of the Politicoast podcast. We talked about growing up in Alberta, what it's like living in BC now, and how he got to head up one of Canada's most successful and most progressive secular organizations.   You can find more from Ian at https://www.bchumanist.ca/ and https://politicoast.ca/ or you can follow him on twitter @ibushfield      As for the rest you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net Follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group; The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1562304800464606/ or email us at mail@brainstormblog.net for your email to be read on the air. If you have a question or thoughts and want to remain anonymous then just let me know in the email or you can message me on facebook. The url for that is www.facebook.com/cjbrainstorm Remember

In this episode Cory, Brandon, Angela, Lisa, and Rene break down some news about conspiracy theorists, homeopaths, and other people who spread misinformation.  Here are some links    Brandon’s Story- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmg3dj/man-sues-infowars-for-spreading-rumor-he-was-the-parkland-shooter?utm_campaign=sharebutton   Rene’s Story- https://www.facebook.com/VICE/videos/845202149001110/ Woo Report Lisa’s Story - https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2018/04/07/the-new-study-on-medical-abortion-reversal-is-total-b-s-heres-why/  Angela’s Story - https://www.groundup.org.za/article/how-journalist-took-ethical-stand-and-risked-her-job/  Cory’s Story - http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/courts-law/naturopath-faces-sentencing-in-starving-baby-case/news-story/bc594346e08341bfee402f19471b830d     As for the rest you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net Follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group; The Brains

In this installment of the Brainstorm Rectable,  Cory, Rene, Lisa, Angela, Brandon, and the amazing Dave talk about how to separate people and ideas. You know, before they go off on random tangents.  Here are some links for the Harris/Klein discussion Original Harris/Murray podcast: https://samharris.org/podcasts/forbidden-knowledge/ Original Vox criticism: https://www.vox.com/.../charles-murray-race-iq-sam-harris... Editor-in-chief of Intelligence scientific journal response: http://quillette.com/.../no-voice-vox-sense-nonsense.../ More from Vox: https://www.vox.com/.../race-black-white-iq-response-critics Response from Klein personally: https://www.vox.com/.../sam-harris-charles-murray-race-iq... Harris releasing his emails with Klein: https://samharris.org/ezra-klein-editor-chief/ Scientist's assessment of the current state of the science on intelligence and race: https://www.nytimes.com/.../opi.../sunday/genetics-race.html Opinion piece from slightly right-of-centre friend of both Harris and

In this episode Cory, Lisa, Angela, Brandon, Rene, and the always amazing Dave talk to the crew from the Left At The Valley podcast. It was a lot of fun with a lot of tangents and jokes along the way.  Here are some links  https://www.leftatthevalley.com/ http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kandk https://www.spreaker.com/user/leftatthevalley https://www.facebook.com/Left-at-the-Valley-1410191742576771/     As for the rest you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net Follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group; The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1562304800464606/ or email us at mail@brainstormblog.net for your email to be read on the air. If you have a question or thoughts and want to remain anonymous then just let me know in the email or you can message me on facebook. The url for that is www.facebook.com/cjbrainstorm Remember to check out aloststateofmind.com For more show notes (once I

In this episode Cory talks to Josh Richards of the JRR talking podcast about his deconversion, his struggle with addiction, and some other topics.  You can find his stuff at www.jrrtalking.com    As for the rest you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net  Follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group; The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1562304800464606/ or email us at mail@brainstormblog.net for your email to be read on the air. If you have a question or thoughts and want to remain anonymous then just let me know in the email or you can message me on facebook. The url for that is www.facebook.com/cjbrainstorm Remember to check out aloststateofmind.com For more show notes (once I get caught up) check out our website www.brainstormblog.net Check out our new store online for some Brainstorm gear. It’s at https://www.teepublic.com/stores/brainstorm-podcast-gear?ref_id=5797 You can sup

In this episode Cory, Angela, Lisa, Rene, Brandon, and Dave talk about all some deadly pseudoscience, some silly woo, some religious snowflakes, and some politics.  Here are the links    Brandon’s Story- http://nationalpost.com/health/woman-dies-after-acupuncture-using-live-bee-stings-instead-of-needles https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/03/23/bee-venom-acupuncture-deadly-quackery-that-can-kill/ Angela’s Story- http://tetribe.net/scientists-say-we-can-sneak-into-parallel-universe-through-our-dreams/ Lisa’s Story- https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/03/23/sweet-jesus-asked-to-change-blasphemous-name-by-christian-petitioners  Rene’s Story- http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/the-numbers-are-in-canadians-really-really-hate-their-premiers   Cory’s Story - https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/free-speech-perception-vs-reality/     As for the rest you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net Follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or

In this segment Cory, Angela, Lisa, Brandon, Rene, and Dave talk about some of the recent back and forth that has been going on in the atheist community. Do we have leaders? Should we? How should we be criticizing them?     As for the rest you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net Follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group; The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1562304800464606/ or email us at mail@brainstormblog.net for your email to be read on the air. If you have a question or thoughts and want to remain anonymous then just let me know in the email or you can message me on facebook. The url for that is www.facebook.com/cjbrainstorm Remember to check out aloststateofmind.com For more show notes (once I get caught up) check out our website www.brainstormblog.net I want to mention that we have a new store online for some Brainstorm gear. It’s at https://www.teepublic.com/stores/br

This episode Cory, Rene, Angela, Lisa, Brandon and the always amazing Dave talk to Justin Clark. Justin founded the Reason Revolution online community and is a public historian with an interest in philosophy. It was a great chat.  Check out Reason Revolution  http://reasonrevolution.org/  https://www.facebook.com/reasonrevolution/  https://twitter.com/ReasonOrg       As for the rest you can contact us at mail@brainstormblog.net Follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group; The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1562304800464606/ or email us at mail@brainstormblog.net for your email to be read on the air. If you have a question or thoughts and want to remain anonymous then just let me know in the email or you can message me on facebook. The url for that is www.facebook.com/cjbrainstorm Remember to check out aloststateofmind.com For more show notes (once I get caught up) check out our webs