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Truth Unrestricted

Confirmation bias, commonplace assumptions, and the zeitgeist itself are disassembled, examined, and reassembled in a detailed autopsy on our current ideaspace. Everyday concepts you probably take for granted are examined in a new light.

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31:41

Evidence Aversion with The Vaccination Station

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2025/02/10

Send us a text Truth Unrestricted Building language for the Disinformation Age. Evidence Aversion is about the propensity or likelihood that a person who engages with unreal beliefs will work to avoid being exposed to evidence and ideas that would contradict their beliefs. But the fact that they know what to avoid tells us something about where they think reality divides. They aren't simply discovering the world. They are actively working to manufacture it in their minds and they consciously ...

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31:52

Every Accusation is a Confession

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2025/02/03

Send us a text You may have heard it said that "every accusation is a confession." But what does that really mean? Why do we think it's true? Are we looking at it in the world right now?

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94:04

American Cultural Aggression - Australia

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2025/01/19

Send us a textThe USA has been pushing its culture outward past its borders for a very long time. This is the beginning of a series of episodes dedicated to looking at what that cultural aggression looks like from the perspective of people that experience it. Joel Hill is on of the hosts of the Conditional Release Program podcast and he joins me to discuss the effects of American Cultural Aggression on Australia.Linkshttps://torontosun.com/news/national/convoy-plans-to-replace-canadas-elected...

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48:18

Proof By Association

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2025/01/12

Send us a textThe Gish gallop is a technique employed to skip away from the current topic and toward other supposedly related topics so as to confuse and overcomplicate a discussion and make it much more difficult to debunk or oppose. Finding ways to dismantle or circumvent the Gish gallop is one of several primary concerns among people who want to find ways to reach the people who are lost in conspiracy thinking. Proof By Association is one logical fallacy that can be pointed to as a resourc...

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74:31

Jim Stewartson's McCarthyism

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2024/12/09

Send us a textJim Stewartson is an online influencer who pushes disinformation to people on the left. He espouses extreme views which work to radicalize those who pay attention. In this episode, I speak to Robin Eriksson about the nature of the problem with Stewartson and how Stewartson's content compares to Joseph McCarthy.Linkshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Denverhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_FlynnStewartson claims that he is fighting a "mind war."Source: https://www.mind-w...

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145:50

US Election Post Mortem

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2024/11/16

Send us a textThis episode is long. We also swear a lot. Enjoy.Linkshttps://www.nbcwashington.com/decision-2024/2024-voter-turnout-election-demographics-trump-harris/3762138/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/after-victory-the-path-ahead-trump-legal-cases_n_672540ade4b00acf55d9d96a?5zjhttps://www.statista.com/statistics/1535043/percent-change-number-young-voters-state-us/

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40:27

Practical Fascism

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2024/10/14

Send us a textFascism attempts to weaponize human selfishness and hatred. It encourages the worst parts of people on a grand scale. How can we recognize it? How can we counter it? What can we, as individuals, do against something that subverts entire nations?

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66:23

Violence Of Our Ancestors

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2024/09/30

Send us a textTruth and Reconciliation Day is a relatively new Canadian holiday that recognizes the struggle of indigenous peoples in Canada and the world while also working on healing rifts and countering racial hate. Len Morissette is a co-founder of C.I.A. Solutions, a majority Indigenous owned film and advertising company, and a former president of the Alberta Native Friendship Centre Association. This conversation was done in recognition and in the spirit of Truth and Reconciliation to a...

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62:58

Immigration Lies

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2024/09/22

Send us a textIt is obvious that Trump plans to use fear about immigrant crime as a wedge issue in the upcoming election. The current focal point for this effort is on Haitian migrants in Springfield, OH. Is anything about this factual?Linkshttps://www.cnn.com/2024/09/15/politics/video/sotu-bash-vance-haitian-immigrants-full-interviewhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield,_Ohio,_cat-eating_hoaxhttps://www.cnn.com/2024/09/10/politics/jd-vance-haitian-immigrants/index.htmlhttps://www.fairus....

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87:00

US Election Update - September

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2024/09/18

Send us a textThe first (and likely only) debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is over. All of Trump's pending legal issues and have been delayed until after the election. And Taylor Swift has given her endorsement. Are we almost out of election stuff to talk about?Linkshttps://abcnews.go.com/Politics/walzs-military-record-vances-accusations-stolen-valor/story?id=112618991https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2024/03/07/lawmaker-who-claims-to-be-a-retired-rear-admiral-was-actually...

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84:24

Staged

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2024/09/01

Send us a textWhen a lone gunman attempted to assassinate Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13th, we saw online the birth of a new conspiracy belief. It has heavily influenced a large number of people on the left to participate in conspiracism. In this episode we take a closer look at the events with an eye to examine some of the ways people engaged poorly with the facts in order to support conspiracy beliefs that have become damaging to the prospect of a shared reality....

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84:48

Skepticism with Daniel Loxton

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2024/08/28

Send us a Text Message.NotesDaniel Loxton is an author and science communicator. He has published books about skepticism and was previously the editor of Junior Skeptic magazine. Daniel, David Bloomberg and I discuss skepticism, its importance, and how we can promote its presence in our information world in this episode.Linkshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Loxtonhttps://www.forbes.com/advisor/legal/product-liability/roundup-lawsuit-update/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hotezhttps://...

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108:40

US Election Update - August

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2024/08/17

Send us a Text Message.Topics covered in brief:DemocratsWalz is VP. How is that going?Harris and Walz have been doing rallies that are *packed* and very high energy.Polls: many polls now show Harris as climbing and leading, though still by a small margin. Even now almost 4 full weeks after Biden dropped out of the race there are still left-leaning influencers who threaten each other semi-casually over their stance on whether Biden should have or shouldn't have dropped out of the race.Rep...

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9:44

Brief: Born Female

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2024/08/04

My take on the Imane Khelif debacle.

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84:11

Election Update Post RNC

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2024/08/03

TBD

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57:50

Blindness of Zealotry

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2024/07/08

Zealotry in a single person is characterized as the amplification of the importance of one single subject to the point that all other subjects have little or no relative importance. Anyone can engage in zealotry and it can lead to many negative consequences for the zealot. How this manifests in social scenarios is discussed in this episode.Linkshttps://www.newsweek.com/los-angeles-synagogue-attack-everything-we-know-1916345

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71:54

Presidential Debate: A Complicated Truth

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2024/07/01

No notes for this episode. David and I sat down to record on a completely different topic and then decided very suddenly to do this conversation instead. Was it the right decision? Would this impulsiveness be good in other situations?

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62:18

Jordan Peterson's Misogyny

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2024/06/23

Jordan Peterson is a right wing polemicist who shouldn't have any measure of celebrity. The fact he does is due to some deeply flawed ideas that were not properly debunked in the moment when he was gaining popularity. I say better late than never.LinksPrevious Truth Unrestricted episodes mentioned in this episode:The Two Selveshttps://www.buzzsprout.com/1947369/10973742-the-two-selvesGender Yin-Yangism https://www.buzzsprout.com/1947369/13315113-gender-yin-yangism-with-lydia-greeneSchrod...

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44:42

Imperfect Information Games

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2024/06/16

Game theory gives us terminology to understand the fundamentals of the games we play. How inforation is hidden and/or discovered is a big part of how we play games and why we think some of them are fun. David Bloomberg and I explore how it is that information affects the strategies used in the games we play and watch.Linkshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theoryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information

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52:36

Conspiracy Addiction 2 with Stephanie Kemmerer

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2024/06/06

Content warning: this episode of the Truth Unrestricted podcast contains graphic descriptions of drug addiction and some of the ways that people suffer from drug addiction. Listener discretion is advised.Conspiracism as compared directly to drug addiction. What does it mean to be so pulled into the idea that conspiracies surround us that giving it up would take an intervention or rehab? The habits that make us feel good encourage us to do them again but what about the habits and situations th...

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