The Podcaster's Guide to the Conspiracy

Josh and M discuss the FBI's COINTELPRO operation, which seems oddly salient to what is happening here and how... — Josh is @monkeyfluids and M is @conspiracism on Twitter You can also contact us at: podcastconspiracy@gmail.com You can learn more about M’s academic work at: http://mrxdentith.com Why not support The Podcaster's Guide to the Conspiracy by donating to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/podcastersguidetotheconspiracy or Podbean crowdfunding? http://www.podbean.com/patron/crowdfund/profile/id/muv5b-79

Join Josh and M for another episode of Conspiracy Theory Masterpiece Theatre in which they review Lee Basham's 2001 paper, "Living with the Conspiracy." — Josh is @monkeyfluids and M is @conspiracism on Twitter You can also contact us at: podcastconspiracy@gmail.com You can learn more about M’s academic work at: http://mrxdentith.com Why not support The Podcaster's Guide to the Conspiracy by donating to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/podcastersguidetotheconspiracy or Podbean crowdfunding? http://www.podbean.com/patron/crowdfund/profile/id/muv5b-79

Josh and M regale their patrons with Germany's Nazi-sympathising Freeman-on-the-Land movement, looking at the so-called king of New Germany, Peter the First.

Welcome to the end of May, a month which saw numerous conspiracy theories about world leaders such as Kim Jong Un, Nicolas Maduro, Jacinda Ardern, and the man who would be prime minister of Aotearoa New Zealand, Todd Muller. There's the usual COVID-19 news, although #OBAMAGATE seems to be Trump's bon mot at this time. David Icke gets a look in, and we possibly close the book on the VW Emissions Scandal...

In the second of the "Conspiracy Theory Masterpiece Theatre" series, Josh and M discuss Brian L. Keeley's seminal 1999 paper, 'Of conspiracy theories' which was published in the Journal of Philosophy. Special thanks to Joe Ulatowski (the judge), Simon McArthur (the bailiff), and our outraged and shocked audience members Aaron Wells, Angela C. Wells, and Mark Derricutt. The crowd noise was from Tomlija (https://freesound.org/people/Tomlija/sounds/101237/). -- Josh is @monkeyfluids and M is @conspiracism on Twitter You can also contact us at: podcastconspiracy@gmail.com You can learn more about M’s academic work at: http://mrxdentith.com Why not support The Podcaster's Guide to the Conspiracy by donating to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/podcastersguidetotheconspiracy or Podbean crowdfunding? http://www.podbean.com/patron/crowdfund/profile/id/muv5b-79

How drunk was M when Josh talked to them about symbols and the like used by right wingers to troll people on the left? Listen in and find out... — Josh is @monkeyfluids and M is @conspiracism on Twitter You can also contact us at: podcastconspiracy@gmail.com You can learn more about M’s academic work at: http://mrxdentith.com Why not support The Podcaster's Guide to the Conspiracy by donating to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/podcastersguidetotheconspiracy or Podbean crowdfunding? http://www.podbean.com/patron/crowdfund/profile/id/muv5b-79

Josh and M review Charles Pigden's seminal paper 'Popper Revisited, or What is Wrong With Conspiracy Theories', which was published in Philosophy of the Social Sciences back in 1995. — Josh is @monkeyfluids and M is @conspiracism on Twitter You can also contact us at: podcastconspiracy@gmail.com You can learn more about M’s academic work at: http://mrxdentith.com Why not support The Podcaster's Guide to the Conspiracy by donating to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/podcastersguidetotheconspiracy or Podbean crowdfunding? http://www.podbean.com/patron/crowdfund/profile/id/muv5b-79

M (sans Josh) interviews Joe Uscinski (Miami) on his recent polling of American attitudes towards COVID-19 and other conspiracy theories. — Josh is @monkeyfluids and M is @conspiracism on Twitter You can also contact us at: podcastconspiracy@gmail.com You can learn more about M’s academic work at: http://mrxdentith.com Why not support The Podcaster's Guide to the Conspiracy by donating to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/podcastersguidetotheconspiracy or Podbean crowdfunding? http://www.podbean.com/patron/crowdfund/profile/id/muv5b-79

Join M, Ginna Husting (Boise), Lee Basham (South Texas College) and Marty Orr (Boise) for a discussion of conspiracy theory in the age of COVID-19. Also, Josh pops at at some point, and there's rather more discussion of the John Turturro classic, "Brain Donors" than you might expect... — Josh is @monkeyfluids and M is @conspiracism on Twitter You can also contact us at: podcastconspiracy@gmail.com You can learn more about M’s academic work at: http://mrxdentith.com Why not support The Podcaster's Guide to the Conspiracy by donating to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/podcastersguidetotheconspiracy or Podbean crowdfunding? http://www.podbean.com/patron/crowdfund/profile/id/muv5b-79

Josh and M discuss the drowning of Harold Holt, Australia's Prime Minister, and the various conspiracy theories that have arisen since his body was never found... — Josh is @monkeyfluids and M is @conspiracism on Twitter You can also contact us at: podcastconspiracy@gmail.com You can learn more about M’s academic work at: http://mrxdentith.com Why not support The Podcaster's Guide to the Conspiracy by donating to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/podcastersguidetotheconspiracy or Podbean crowdfunding? http://www.podbean.com/patron/crowdfund/profile/id/muv5b-79