Conspirituality

Two new MAHA-approved bills would force insurance companies to cover supplements and shield homeopathic manufacturers from any liability while allowing them to make more health claims. As Derek argues, this is what Kennedy has always been aiming for: shuffle as many alt-med products into circulation as possible while ensuring they don't need any of those pesky regulations pharmaceuticals must endure. Show NotesWest Virginia House Bill 4760Texas HR 7050Supplements Are a $70 Billion Industry. RFK Jr. Is Good for Business.RFK Jr.’s MAHA Movement Picks Up Steam State by StateWith RFK Jr. in Charge, Supplement Makers See Chance To Cash InLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prior to last month’s killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, many white American citizens felt obligated to use their privilege to actively disrupt unjust ICE activities in their cities. But the stakes just got higher for everyone.In the wake of these tragic deaths, we look at how the MAGA propaganda machine dehumanizes opposition and demands loyalists not trust the evidence of their own eyes and ears. In segment two, Matthew will look into how renegade religious leaders, then in segment three Derek discusses brave community organizers in Portland currently resisting ICE and the authoritarianism it advances.Show NotesChristians, Let’s Stop Abusing Romans 13 As a resident of Minnesota—Bishop BarronBishop Barron's tendentious attack on Mayor Mamdani distorts doctrine | National Catholic Reporter Leo ally: defund ICEBBC Audio US Military Archbishop, Faith and Gen Z, 'Understanding British Imams' projectFact-Checking Trump Admin Claims of Paid Protestors“Womanosphere” Influencers Urge Against the “Sin of Empathy”‘Oregon was next’: Trump targeted state after Minnesota, report saysFeds at Portland ICE facility again deploy chemical agents against protestersPDX ICE WatchThis nonviolent stuff'll get you killed : how guns made the civil rights movement possible : Cobb, Charles E., Jr., author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveBrief: Beyond Violence and Nonviolence (Part 1) — Conspirituality  Omar Wasow on Non-Violent Protest EffectivenessCharles Tilly on Public Perception of Protest MovementsWilliam Gamson’s Strategy Of Social ProtestLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When videos surfaced of Alex Pretti kicking an ICE vehicle's taillight 11 days before his murder, claims that the video was AI dominated social media. Some commenters even posted articles that stated the opposite of what they thought they said.Derek explores the necessity of curiosity when coming across information that contradicts what you want to hear. First, he explores it through his love of books before applying the skill to situations like the Pretti video.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The silence of MAHA influencers around the murder of Renee Good (and ICE generally) has been excessively loud. Yet that’s expected from the coalition that voted for Donald Trump in order to install RFK Jr at this point. Many believe “health isn’t political” while refusing to accept or acknowledge what their vote has empowered.Dr Jonathan Howard, a neurologist and psychiatrist at NYU Langone’s Multiple Sclerosis Comprehensive Care Center, returns to the podcast to talk about MAGA’s enablers in the MAHA movement with Derek and Julian.Show NotesMAHA Gave Us MAGA 2.0.  Remember the Enablers.Everyone Else is Lying to You: How our medical establishment weaponized doubt to spread COVID, normalize quackery, and undermine public healthLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Trump surges his Gestapo and threatens to annex new territory, his brain is collapsing. He’s sundowning on Truth Social, nodding off in meetings, slurring words, slurping at the saliva pooling in his mouth. His insults and aggressions are as constant and predictable as his arms are, reaching out for handholds.Up until this point, discourse on the mental health of this decrepit fascist leader has used the kid gloves of psychology, psychoanalysis, and psychiatry, in which even the most informed analyses were constrained by the fact that experts were interpreting his inner states. For our part, we’ve compared his fate to that of charismatic cult leaders at the end of the line—and we’ll do more of that today. Now a new posse of clinical commentators on IG and TikTok have made it all much more biological: we are witnessing, they say, the predictable signs of fast-progressing dementia.Show NotesGoldwater Rule vs Duty to Warn, American Academy of Psychiatry and LawWorld Health Organization: DementiaSigns and Symptoms of DementiaAlzheimer's disease: a comprehensive review of epidemiology, risk factors, symptoms diagnosis, management, caregiving, advanced treatments and associated challengesUSC study finds new evidence linking dementia to problems with the brain’s waste clearance systemA new drug could stop Alzheimer’s before memory loss beginsA 2025 update on treatment strategies for the Alzheimer’s disease spectrumDementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2024 report of the Lancet standing CommissionBroadening dementia risk models: building on the 2024 Lancet Commission report for a more inclusive global frameworkStudy finds disparities in diagnosis and treatment of dementiaDecomposing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Risk and Protective Factors of Dementia in the U.S.Mapping racial and ethnic healthcare disparities for persons living with dementia: A scoping reviewDementia Diagnosis Disparities by Race and EthnicityRacial disparities in dementia determined by social factorsStraight-forward Explainer: What’s Going on With NIH Cuts to Alzheimer’s Research?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices