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 talks to John Whitehead about a wide variety of issues, starting with the Paula Jones sexual harassment case against President Bill Clinton, then government…
Judith Curry is a well credentialed climate scientist, professor at the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and former…
David discusses the different types of election and vote counting systems, and why a system that he invented has advantages and unique characteristics. To find…
David discusses election justice with Paul Thomas of Election Justice USA. This organizations' concerns are that many Americans are denied the right to vote through…
David talks with Jillian Skeet about the Stephan case, in which two Canadian parents were punished, the father with jail, the mother with house arrest,…
David interviews Joel Savage on AIDS and Ebola, and the dark role of Belgium in African history. Although Joel has worked with Dr. Johan van…
British author Alison Wolf (Baroness Wolf of Dulwich) discusses how our desire to give women equal opportunities at higher echelons of society has not helped…
David interviews Steven Naifeh, and a Pullitzer Prize winner and co-author of a major biography of Vincent van Gogh, about the life of this artist.…
David talks with Maurice Possley, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, about exonerations - the cases of people sentenced to a prison term, sometimes for life,…
David talks to Peter Duesberg about his heretical views on AIDS and cancer. Way back in 1987 he wrote a paper giving the reasons why…
David talks with Areeq Chowdhury, founder and chief executive of Web Roots Democracy, a United Kingdom-based organization that promotes the idea of online voting in…
David is interested in democratic processes, especially those that are flawed, and decides to talk to Tea Party activist Linda Paine who believes that there…