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What Happens When You Force Conservatives to Watch Real News
In the fall of 2020, two political scientists did something that sounds simple and turned out to be one of the most unsettling media experiments in r…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Why Does the Right Seem So Stupid?
This is not a rhetorical question. It has a scientific answer.
And once you understand it, a lot of things that have seemed baffling about American po…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Nazis Were Not Socialists
Nazis Were Not Socialists. Conservatives Know It. That Is Why They Keep Saying It.
There is a claim that surfaces every time someone draws a compariso…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Why MAGA Believes Memes Over Facts
There is something important happening inside the brain of every person who shares a meme with completely fabricated statistics and believes it witho…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Faux News is Making You Dumber
Roger Ailes grew up in Warren, Ohio. His father worked the line at a Packard plant, wiring cars for GM, taking orders from managers he resented. Men …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
#118 - System Justification
Episode 124
Why do poor conservatives keep voting against their own interests?
The answer is not ignorance and it is not stupidity. It is a psychological mechani…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
How Propaganda Actually Works on Your Brain
Most people think propaganda is something that happens somewhere else. To less educated people. To people in authoritarian countries without free pre…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
#117 - How Propaganda Works
Episode 125
Propaganda is not guesswork. It is a science that has been refined for nearly a hundred years, and the people using it right now know exactly what th…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Why The Right Is Afraid of Everything
This is not opinion. This is not punditry. This is peer reviewed neuroscience published in Current Biology, replicated across multiple independent st…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
#116 - How to Get Someone Out of A Cult
Episode 123
How to get someone out of a cult. Arguing, fact-checking, and cutting them off all make it worse. Psychologist Steven Hassan studied cult recovery fo…
3 months, 3 weeks ago