Podcast – The League of Nerds

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The dynamic due of James and Rebecca Waa, I mean Natalie Newell are back. This time we are talking with Bryce Blankenagel of the Naked Mormonism podcast. Bryce is a former Mor-mo and now researches the history of the church and its influential figures. Find Bryce here and do give his show a listen http://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/about-the-hostguest-appearances.html […]

What is Science? A culmination of the best ways we have so far developed to understand the nature of our universe? Or perhaps is it another imperialist white man social construct which seeks to invalidate cultural knowledge and principles. At one point this question would have been rightly laughed out of any serious place but […]

Buck read a book, he thought you might like it too! The book is ‘On Tyranny: twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century’ by Timothy Snyder. The book takes a look at 20 things that caused and allowed tyranny in many forms to prosper in the 20th century. It is unabashedly anti Trump but neither pro […]

Yesterday was International Holocaust remembrance day, on the 27th of January 1945 Auschwitz was liberated. Roughly 6 million Jews, 250k mentally disabled, 200k Romani, and close to 10k homosexual men. Despite being highly documented, having 1000s of complimentary personal accounts on both sides, and Nazi admitting it, some people still think the Holocaust was fictional. […]

This film was dull and the person who made it is too. Basically calling things conspiracies is a conspiracy to discredit people who believe them. Download Podcast Watch Episode on YouTube

This week Buck breaks out his nunchucks focuses his Qi and transcends to clear his mind of all distractions. With the adequate number of montages Buck is ready to talk with his Guest Mr the Pinkman about martial Artist frauds. P.s – did you know Chuck Norris was really Carlos Norris?!? Download Podcast Watch Episode on […]

Vance is back… this time he talks to the nerds about his time at Monsanto. The nerds were the first podcast to interview Vance and his position as the director of millennial engagement for Monsanto. Engaging with millennials is a crucial project, terrifyingly millennials are moving into more and more positions of power. That dumb […]

The alt-nerds are joined by Dr Chad Hayes (http://www.chadhayesmd.com) to talk about the joint project to send him to the woo conference ‘Get your life back now’. In a moment of jest Natalie twitted the conference. Plans quickly emerged to send a real Dr to this conference. Thanks to many generous donors we sent Chad […]

In late October Myles was invited to Battle of ideas down in London. He went to see Vance Crowe, the man from Monsanto. Vance was shocked about Myles’ height. The Battle of ideas tries to bring multiple different view points for debate and encourages rigorous cross examination. Download Podcast Watch Episode on YouTube

This week Buck talks to the guys from ‪Mythicist Milwaukee about a topic that stopped being relevant 2 months ago. A few months ago the guys and their skeptics conference found themselves at the wrong end of an angry mob. We talk about the controversy, urine, free speech and future plans. Download Podcast Watch Episode on […]

Buck is really milking in the lime light, he tells us, in depth, about he old beliefs on 9/11. Like many truthers Buck had seen and read opinions online and felt that gave him enough evidence to know the ‘truth’. He then also went out of his way to avoid information that challenged those beliefs. […]

The nerds this week have Chris Shelton on once again. Chris has a lot of experience with scientology which some might consider an extremist ideology. What is an extremist ideology and what makes a person fall into that mindset? Hope you enjoy the show, you can find more of Chris here https://mncriticalthinking.com/ Download Podcast Watch Episode […]

It finally happened! We spoke with Kevin Folta about his research. Professor Folta (if you want to be formal) works on plants and how they work out their environment, they call this plant whispering. By changing the light Kevin and his team can ‘tell’ plants things. His group has also began to work on a […]

The self proclaimed best British author (seriously) Thomas Baden-Riess joins Buck to talk about why he believes that 9/11 was an inside job. Download Podcast Watch Episode on YouTube

The Waco siege was a siege of a compound belonging to the group Branch Davidians by American federal and Texas state law enforcement and US military. The siege lasted for 51 days between February 28 and April 19, 1993 and ended with an FBI assault, during which the compound burned down, killing 76 people inside […]

The Anarchist Cookbook, first published in 1971, is a book that contains instructions for the manufacture of explosives, rudimentary telecommunications phreaking devices, and related weapons, as well as instructions for home manufacturing of illicit drugs, including LSD. It was written by William Powell at the apex of the counterculture era in order to protest against […]

A full complement of nerds this week with a special guest in the form of Chris Shelton. Scientology describes Chris as ‘difficult to find a more unqualified person to speak on the subject… A self-proclaimed arrogant know-it-all, Shelton is really just a fringe figure on the Internet, where he obsessively vents about the religion that […]

This week Buck joined by Christine Price the former president of her High School Free Thought Club and talk about how censorship isn’t just a thing the Left do. Also some sexy some sexy Sorority stories… not really Download Podcast Watch Episode on YouTube

The tactical herbicide Agent Orange, which was used in South-east Asia by the United States Department of Defence during the Vietnam War, was made from equal parts of the n–butyl esters of 2,4,5-T and 2,4,-D. For almost half a century, controversy has surrounded its use, mainly because it contained a highly toxic dioxin impurity (TCDD). […]

In this podcast, we discuss Nazi conspiracy and the ridiculous technologies (e.g. spaceships, secret bases at the core of the planet, and Nazi’s on the moon) that people believe were created as part of it. Download Podcast Watch Episode on YouTube

Was Balloon Boy all a hoax? Yes, yes it was unless you’re Myles. Myles gets it all wrong and buys into a hoax, James (the voice of reason and writer of this blurb) tries to fish Myles’ deluded brain back, oh and Buck was there I guess. Download Podcast Watch Episode on YouTube

Buck is joined by Jody Tomchishen a Philosophy PhD candidate and he and Buck talk over is there something specially or inherently ‘bad’ or dangerous, or violent about Islam more say that other judo based religions. Download Podcast Watch Episode on YouTube

This week the nerds are joined by Kevin Folta once again he has recently being spreading awareness of PETA’s latest campaign of harassment. Dr Christine Lattin is a postdoc researcher at Yale, her work focuses on how stress can effect behaviour in birds. She is also trying to develop new methods to reduce having to […]

What the health is the latest assault on the nerds sensibilities. Instead of understanding that almost any diet can be healthy constructed the film makers decided that it is vegan or death. Download Podcast Watch Episode on YouTube

Alcoholics Anonymous is often held as the best way to cure an Alcoholic. Is Alcoholism a disease? – does AA work? – whats with all the religious stuff? Buck and Myles (the B team) are joined by Jon Stewart, he spent 14 years attending AA meetings but left and stayed sober. He tells the B […]

In an attempt to have a fatwa issued on his life Buck and Terry McDermott sit down and talk about how islam may drive extremist Islamic terrorism. Terry is the author of Perfect soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It. Download Podcast Watch Episode on YouTube

Oh boy another hot button topic, we had planned this episode a long time in advance in order to not be accused of milking any hype or drama, then the universe spat in Myles’ furry little eye by having Sargon/Anita drama at vidcon. Troy Leavitt (veteran Game developer/designer) talks to the nerds about his industry […]

Brian Eggo joins the nerds to talk about all things Psychic. Are they as scummy as they seem? Brian talks about his multiple run ins with psychics around the UK. Download Podcast Watch Episode on YouTube

Alex Jones and info wars would like to sell you stuff, what sort of stuff well Jeff and the nerds talk about these great products. Download Podcast Watch Episode on YouTube

Woke yeah? What even is a Red pill? Buck tries his best not virtue signal himself to death. I say how dare someone hold a complex set of opinion based on evidence and reflection. No you must be in my camp or you’re a Nazi/femaniazi. Download Podcast Watch Episode on YouTube

Oh boy… A fake paper does not make an entire field fake. There’s no need to use fake papers to criticize any field. Any field of research has holes and tings that look ridiculous from the outside. Relying on hoaxes to try and make your point especially when those hoaxes were spotting as much makes […]

I am AM %*% please enjoy this squishy human ‘entertainment’. Artificial intelligence is never going to happen, relax fellow humanoid. Download Podcast Watch Episode on YouTube

Bought is a 2015 Documentary in which Tony Bark (Quicksliver from Xmen not the MArvel extended universe) tries to tie together all sorts of health based conspiracy theories. The films titular idea is that big pharma is paying to spread diseases. This frankly idiotic idea is repeatedly asserted by a cavalcade of the under qualified, […]

Yeah I guess this week Buck bores C0nc0rdance for 50 mins or so about his inane ideals and politics. The topic, politic and science two low key and none hot button topics at all. What are the lines of where scientists should engage in politics, do they even exist? Is everything politics? Should Scientists be […]

Framed as a return to form after the calamity of Prometheus (which made $300 million profit ffs), Alien: Covenant is Ridley Scott’s, hopefully, final bash at the Alien franchise. We join a group of misfits with no real purpose or clear goal as they talk about a film with aliens and what not. Download Podcast Watch […]

Food Inc a 2009 ‘Documentary’ on food production and consumption practices of North America. Mistaking less efficient and more labour intensive farming practices as some how better or natural is mistake. Food inc sets out to expose corporate greed or the while ignoring the exact same issue is ‘organic’ farming. Download Podcast Watch Episode on YouTube

You know that famous ship that sank? Did it really sink? Is it sunk? who’da sunk it? There is a conspiracy of titanic proportion that the titanic didn’t actually sink instead was replaced by the sister ship. Download Podcast Watch Episode on YouTube

Buck talks to a Sandy Hook Truther. https://theleagueofnerdsradio.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/fubm-004.mp3 Download Podcast

Myles feels like he needs to vent ok, let’s all just let him get this off his chest and be cool right? In this weeks TLoNs Myles recounts his experiences in giving a GMO evidence based talk to the skeptics in the pub throughout the UK. He thinks it shows a underbelly in the skeptic […]

Sprits rap three times on this podcast if you are there… The nerds are joined by an apparition of Ash Pryce, writer of ‘How to talk to the dead’ and accomplished skeptic. The crazy victorians really got into the dead even though it all started as a scam. Download Podcast Watch Episode on YouTube

In early 1986 a series of bad choices lead to a global incident. Reactor number 4 of Chernobyl nuclear power station melted down. How and why and what were the consequences? The nerds talk about there stance on nuclear power and the fallout from Chernobyl. Download Podcast Watch Episode on YouTube

It is that time of the month again, time to bolt the doors, delete youtube and scream ‘Fuck you Buck Mulligan’. Buck speaks with the affable Natalie about cults I guess. Download Podcast

Boy is this an exciting topic to choose, but the access to science is so vital to so much. Having closed and difficult to reach areas of science can only hurt it. This week the nerds talk about the emergence of places like sci-hub. Download Podcast Watch Episode on YouTube

Oh dear boys and girls, Myles and James have a disagreement, you know what to do! Form an immutable mental target of the ‘other’ and project an argument on to them. In this weeks exciting episode Myles and James have a civil discussion about science careers. Download Podcast Watch Episode on YouTube

Did the red cross really test MMS (an industrial bleach) as a treatment for Malaria in Uganda? The nerds review a MMS sales pitch that makes heavy use of this idea. Shockingly they find it is bull and serious questions and possible criminal charges need to be put to the makers of this trial. Download […]

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Grant Richie Jr DDS joins the Nerds this week to talk about the Skeptical Community or if you prefer the ‘Skeptical Community?’ is it a thing? Should it be a thing? What can we do to make it better is that not really important. Download PodcastWatch Episode on YouTube

What’s the deal with Vaccine courts? Are manufactures of vaccines completely exempt from being sued by patients who are injured by vaccines? The nerds are joined by lawyer Travis who walks the two legal dunces over the complicated legal system. Download Podcast Watch Episode on YouTube

In reply to Gasland, journalist Irish Boris Johnson (Phelim McAleer) decided to investigate some of the claims made in Gasland, at a press event he asked Gasland’s director (Josh Fox) why he did not mention that methane in water supplies has let others light their taps. Josh took exception to the circulating video clip and […]

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