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Supplementary Material 38: Toxic Mould Symbiosis, Mild Phrenology, and the Best People in the World
🕑 Added 2025-10-14 13:15:46 +0000 UTCWe end the futile struggle, embrace the toxins, and become one with our mould brethren.
Supplementary Material 38
00:00 Intro
02:54 Boomer Matt reacts to Twitter videos
07:31 Shellenberger and Tucker discuss the 9/11 Files
12:42 Eric's Google Ngram Investigations
17:08 Vindication on the Elephant Graveyard
22:00 Eric's ARC lecture goes viral
25:24 Andrew Huberman is NOT a phrenologist...
29:06 Eric Weinstein vs. Piers Morgan
33:44 Everyone knows Eric is a serious thinker
46:09 Peterson is taken out of the Gurusphere by Demons and Toxic Mould
52:09 Gurus and Bespoke Alternative Health
57:00 Social Contagion Hypocrisy
01:02:55 Toxic Mould Symbiosis?
01:04:46 Pewdiepie, Diogenes, and the Seeker Mindset
01:16:14 The Wisdom of the Ancients
01:21:01 The Meaning Crisis and Christian Pivots
01:22:29 Konstantin Kisin's surprising Christian pivot
01:25:17 The best person Konstantin ever met (not Francis)
01:30:22 The Fifth Column Agrees with Megyn Kelly 88% of the time
01:33:07 Megyn Kelly explains how the Democrats crossed the line and must pay
01:41:35 Intellectual Clerics for MAGA
01:43:16 Slightly Adversarial libertarians for hire
01:47:00 Drew Pavlou and Fluid Populism
01:50:17 Two Varieties of Online Derangement: Noah Smith's Hot Takes
01:53:57 Need for Attention = Desire for Virality
01:57:23 Status Seeking Networkers vs Paul Bloom
02:01:27 Reflecting on the Al Murray Interview
02:02:22 The struggle of podcasters
02:04:52 Paul Bloom: the best person in the world?
02:06:00 Mike Israetel's Thesis Controversy
02:10:30 What does a PhD mean?
02:16:55 David Deutsch visits Curt Jaimungal
02:22:32 The Dangers of Doubling Down: Pirate Software
02:23:32 Hasan Piker and Shock Collar-gate
02:27:15 Matt's Take on Shock Collars
02:33:51 Dystopia Update: Putin wants Trump to win the Nobel Prize
02:37:11 Outro
Links
Chang, C., & Gershwin, M. E. (2019). The myth of mycotoxins and mold injury. Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology, 57(3), 449–455.
Borchers, A. T., Chang, C., & Eric Gershwin, M. (2017). Mold and human health: A reality check. Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology, 52(3), 305–322.
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Comments
Charlie
If this podcast covered only eric Weinstein i would be ok with that. Just saying.
Cesare, But Def Not A Borgia
Chris, I think you were right about Putin's motives for saying he'd nominate Trump for the Nobel Prize. Trump chewed Zelensky out on Friday. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-private-blow-up-with-zelensky-revealed/
