Truth Unrestricted

Send us Fan Mail The ways in which we get the wrong answers are mostly known. It's time to have a look at some of the ways we resist moving to the right answers. Ep 155 of Truth Unrestricted is about the tendency to insist that something is correct even after evidence for it has been removed. Links https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/episode-4-we-talk-our-covid-vaccine-adverse-events/id1558...

Send us Fan Mail The Election Truth Alliance is a group of people who, despite their explicit claims to the contrary, work to provide conspiracy narratives that encourage election denial. They use confusing and erroneous statistical analyses and a mystification of technology to create an image of fear and distrust about election results. This is examined in ep 154 of Truth Unrestricted. Links Davi...

Send us Fan Mail The Prisoner was a television program in the UK during the late 1960s. This particular episode, Checkmate, is an exploration of the inner workings of a conspiracy. How do the participants find a way to work together? How does the psychology of risk and trust intertwine?

Send us Fan Mail Is it okay to lie in service of a noble cause? Is it okay to support someone else's lie if that lie benefits you? Where do those lies lead? Should we give in to unreality in order to create a better world for ourselves? These questions are asked in ep 152 of Truth Unrestricted.

Send us Fan Mail The Prisoner was a television program in the UK during the late 1960s. This particular episode, Free For All, is a unique examination of democracy. Is it all a dream? Is it justifiable to tell populist lies to become powerful if you intend to use that power to free people from tyranny? These are the questions discussed in ep 151 of Truth Unrestricted.

Send us Fan Mail The Prisoner was a television program in the UK during the late 1960s. The surreality created by its esthetic has allowed much speculation about its meaning even now 6 decades later. I examine this from the perspective of the conspiratorial mind in ep 150 of Truth Unrestricted.

Send us Fan Mail Existence Bias is a philosophical concept that explains some of the fundamental behaviour of all known conscious beings. How does that relate to AI and do we think AI will prefer to exist? This question is discussed in ep 149 of Truth Unrestricted. Links https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19857000/ https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/cZPgDKjRXmstfEeAt/three-tricky-biases-human-...

Send us Fan Mail Conspiratorial thinking can happen to anyone. When it happens to the people others rely on to lead them out of the darkness it needs to be criticized with vigour. Here is part 1 of my effort to do this with Matthew Remski. Part 2 of 2.

Send us Fan Mail Conspiratorial thinking can happen to anyone. When it happens to the people others rely on to lead them out of the darkness it needs to be criticized with vigour. Here is part 1 of my effort to do this with Matthew Remski.

Send us Fan Mail When Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel created the character of Superman in the 1930s they had a specific vision. Has that vision been maligned for other purposes? Is it possible to view the character through the lens of the reality maligned? We answer these questions in ep 146 of Truth Unrestricted.

Send us Fan Mail Who and what are the globalists? Why are they talked about so often by people who push conspiracy ideation? And why haven't they provided a list? Does anti-globalism even make any sense? These questions are all answered in ep 145 of Truth Unrestricted.

Send us Fan Mail Television has changed the world. Has it been for the better or for the worse? Were any of these changes intentional or were they incidental? How has the capitalist marketplace intertwined itself with television? All of these questions are discussed in the 1976 classic film Network.

Send us Fan Mail On March 19, Pierre Poilievre was a guest on Joe Rogan. The press went wild wwaiting for Poilievre to go full conspiracist and, when he didn't, the press collectively gave him a thumbs up. But was that approval warranted? Did they examine this interview closely enough? Ep 143 of Truth Unrestricted looks at what the media won't show you. Links https://www.canada.ca/en/hea...

Send us Fan Mail Decision Paranoia describes one of the primary motivations for conspiratorial thinking. Are you afraid of powerful groups controlling your mind or negatively affecting your decisions? Did you believe that wearing masks during Covid was going to be a slippery slope to full obedience to the state? Do you know anyone who did? And where exactly does a "tin foil hat" come int...

Send us Fan Mail What would it be like to date a computer? And what would it like to be conscious but yet confined to the inside of a machine? Are we even real? Are our interactions the product of free will or destiny? These themes are explored in the 2013 film Her. Relevant sci fi for our times. Ep 141 of Truth Unrestricted examines how the ideas from the film intersect with the disinformation ag...

Send us Fan Mail What do you think about when you see propaganda? Do you see the same thing that other people see? Come with me as I examine a piece of it now to see if what I see is similar to what you see. Is the WEF a communist front? Does the idea of cooperation between nations disguise the existence of an organized conspiracy to subvert the will of the people in those nations? Links https://w...

Send us Fan Mail Premier (of Alberta) Danielle Smith has scheduled a referendum for Oct 19. She has 9 questions for Albertans that cannot wait for an election campaign. What are they and why would she choose these specific questions? Why isn't one of the questions about separating from Canada? These questions are all answered in ep 139 of Truth Unrestricted. Links https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmon...

Send us Fan Mail The creation of new vocabulary to describe our environment is done to assist in the communication of ideas. If our good ideas need to be expressed faster and more efficiently then maybe we should be finding ways to do that. Here are some examples of this in action. Links  https://knowledgefight.com/ Reality Inversion https://www.buzzsprout.com/1947369/episodes/15011159-reality-inv...

Send us Fan Mail Star Wars has always been about escape fiction with a light moral touch in a vast and expandable storytelling universe. In that fictional setting our imaginations can engage and reinterpret many things to create retroactive continuity to mask poor writing. But how does this affect our relationship with reality?

Send us Fan Mail Donald Trump is a bully who wants to feel powerful. His influence causes reactions that oppose him. In the middle of these forces arise opportunists looking to have their own movements rise in the cracks that form. Alberta separatists have risen to the chaotic occasion. How should we react? Links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Cup https://www.forbes.com/sites/hollycorbett/2...

Send us Fan Mail Dark City is a film about a secret reality that is being hidden from its residents. What does that look like? What does it lead to? How do we cope with divergent realities? These questions are explored in ep 135 of Truth Unrestricted.

Send us Fan Mail Part 2 of our Manchurian Candidate coverage dives into direct comparisons between the two versions of the film (1962 vs 2004) from the conspiratorial perspective. How does the realism affect the audience's viewing experience? How do the ideas carried by the films and by conspiratorial thinking affect our ability to navigate reality?

Send us Fan Mail Last week's episode (An Open Letter To Alex Hale) left some unanswered questions. Those questions are answered here. Links Quorac's Nov 8th Twitter space which is referenced several times in this episode. The relevant section starts shortly after the 2 hr mark. https://x.com/AlteredEggoEgo/status/1987015544298701112?s=20

Send us Fan Mail I call upon Alex Hale @NBPTROCKS to ask Snowden Bishop when her podcast episodes featuring dangerous antivaccine disinformation will be removed from Spotify and iHeartRadio.

Send us Fan Mail The Manchurian Candidate has long been an idea separated from the film that created the term. The idea that a person could be reshaped and controlled as an assassin has long inspired conspiratorial thinking. So what other ideas from the film inspire these errant notions?