We rip off the unconvincing plastic mask to reveal the true gurus lurking underneath and discuss:
- Russian Propaganda and Influencer Scandal
- Profit Incentives in Alternative Media and the Need for Disclosure
- Excessive Profiteering and Advertising
- Lex Fridman interviews Trump (with love)
- Trump and Anti-Vaxx Conspiracy Theories
- Trump and Kamala Debate Reactions and Heterodox Takes
- Destiny vs. the Low Bar of the Alternative Media
- When Joe met Bret
- Rogan & Bret's Massive Projection and Hypocrisy
- Financial Incentives in Alternative Media
- Gabor Maté cites some Neuroimaging Studies
- Matt's HUGE Correction on Twitter Funding
- The University of Austin in Texas still exists!
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Links
- Legal Eagle video on the Tenet Media scandal
- Kanai, R., Feilden, T., Firth, C., & Rees, G. (2011). Political orientations are correlated with brain structure in young adults. Current Biology, 21(8), 677-680.
- Boekel, W., Wagenmakers, E. J., Belay, L., Verhagen, J., Brown, S., & Forstmann, B. U. (2015). A purely confirmatory replication study of structural brain-behavior correlations. cortex, 66, 115-133.
- Joe Rogan Experience #2198 - Bret Weinstein
- Donald Trump Interview | Lex Fridman Podcast #442
- The Guardian: We each have a Nazi in us. We need to understand the psychological roots of authoritarianism. Gabor Maté.
