David Mivasair is a Canadian rabbi who is part of a petition to remove charitable status from the Jewish National Fund, a major landowner in…
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.
Libby Emmons is an award-winning playwright who was member of a theater group called the Puss Collective, but got ejected because of her views on…
David discusses polygraphs, also known as lie detectors, with George Maschke. He makes the case that they are merely pseudoscience in fancy packaging designed to…
David discusses medical integrity with David Healy, a psychiatric researcher who is not afraid to speak his mind, such as in his books, “Let them…
Jenn Smith is a transgender person, born into a male body, but often living with his feminine side. And yes, Jenn does not deny his…
Cynthia Garrett is a lawyer in California who is involved with the organization FACE, Families Advocating for Campus Equality. She discusses with David the problems…
David discusses conspiracy theories with Kurtis Hagen, a former professor, who has written papers, books, and now a pamphlet, on the subject. He believes in…
David interviews CD Mock, whose son Corey was accused of sexual assault on a college campus, then exonerated, then kicked out, then exonerated again. CD…
A book with the title, “The End of Policing”, is certainly provocative, but it makes you think about how Americans are over-policed, especially if poor…
Meghan Murphy is a feminist who is concerned that some trans women, still with male genitalia, still sexually attracted to women, are asserting their entitlement…
Dick Ablin, a cancer researcher specializing in cryoimmunotherapy, discovered PSA, the Prostate Specific Antigen, in the 1970s. So he must love Movember, when men are…
According to Jacob Stegenga, a Cambridge lecturer in philosophy of science, and author of the recent book, ‘Medical Nihilism’, many pharmaceutical interventions have a thin…