Progressive Radio Network

Infectious Myth

with David Crowe
The Infectious Myth:is a a podcast about the scientific, political and cultural myths that infect our society. If a belief is held by enough people, especially prestigious people with an education and job in a specialized field, many people believe that their dogmatic utterances can be taken on faith. David Crowe, and the people he interviews, shatter that faith.

David speaks with retired professor Bruce Alexander about addiction. Like former guest Marc Lewis, Alexander also believes that addiction is not a disease, and certainly…
Peter LaVenia, a Green Party candidate, talks about his hypothesis that it is the Democratic Party that is in meltdown, not the Republican party.
Paul Street is an independent researcher, journalist, historian, author and speaker based in Iowa City and Chicago.
There is a transgender bathroom war in the USA, and a transgender pronoun war in Canada. Some transgender or non-binary people do not want to…
David has a wide ranging discussion with famous cartoonist (also musician and writer) Robert Crumb. They talk about AIDS, including their mutual friendship with Christine…
David catches up on his mailbag and press clippings, reading some feedback from previous shows, discussing the two horrible Presidential choices that America faces, and…
In episode 118, David interviews James Ottar Grundvig, author of “Master Manipulator”. The subject of his book is Poul Thorsen, both a critical player in…
Dr. Joel Wallach learned about the importance of good nutrition while a veterinarian. He applied this knowledge to humans and now runs a company that…
In episode 116 David interviews film makers Joan Shenton and Andi Reiss about their documentary “Positive Hell”, now censored for the second time in the…
In episode 115 David interviews Charles Ortel, an investment researcher, who has called the Clinton Foundation a giant financial scam. He claims that the financial…
David Crowe talks with Alison Tomlison and Raymund Ban about nutrition, while he is in South Korea. Alison dealt with her own severe health problems,…
David examines the problematic characteristics of the United States unique electoral system. Some of these include the embedded two party system, where third parties are…