What The FUP? Downloads From The Secret Ghost Library

Happy Ghost Library Month, Brian! Are ghosts anarchists? Are chimps? Are human toddlers? Today is part two of our three part series exploring anarchism and its plausibility as a political model. Lindsey talks about her huge crush on developmental and comparative psychologist Michael Tomasello's research on the interdependence hypothesis. Bumper source, Nick Offerman on The Ezra Klein Show https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/12/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-nick-offerman.html Tomasello (2014) The Ultra-Social Animal https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejsp.2015 Tomasello (2012) The Interdependence Hypothesis https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/668207 Aiello & Dunbar (1993) Estimated human group sizes based on neocortex size https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/204160 Kropotkin - Mutual Aid https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-mutual-aid-a-factor-of-evolution Rebecca Solnit, Disaster Collectivism https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-how-to-survive-a-disaster/ Support the show at: www.patreon.com/fuppod Email us at FUPpod@gmail.com Facebook Discussion Group: www.facebook.com/groups/341683697248941 Twitter: What The FUP? Podcast (@FuPpod) / Twitter

What the FUP is an anarchist, Brian? Today is our first of a three part series exploring anarchism and its plausibility as a political model. James C. Scott, Two Cheers For Anarchism https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691161037/two-cheers-for-anarchism Support the show at: www.patreon.com/fuppod Email us at FUPpod@gmail.com Facebook Discussion Group: www.facebook.com/groups/341683697248941 Twitter: What The FUP? Podcast (@FuPpod) / Twitter

Why the FUP would you dump dry ice into a hurricane, Brian? In this episode, we wrap up our four-part discussion of conspiracy thinking, with a discussion of weather-control. Behind the Bastards: Ivermectin Pt 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXgCnA5l658 Serious Inquiries Only: A Veterinarian Answers our Ivermectin Questions https://seriouspod.com/sio309-a-veterinarian-answers-our-ivermectin-questions/ Conspirituality Podcast: https://conspirituality.net/ Fixing The Sky, by James Rodger Fleming http://cup.columbia.edu/book/fixing-the-sky/9780231144124 Token Rock: https://www.tokenrock.com/numerology/ Support the show at: www.patreon.com/fuppod Email us at FUPpod@gmail.com Facebook Discussion Group: www.facebook.com/groups/341683697248941 Twitter: What The FUP? Podcast (@FuPpod) / Twitter

What the FUP is up with the golden ratio and mysterious traffic jams, Brian? In this episode, we continue our four-part discussion of conspiracy thinking, focusing today on the emergence of patterns in natural systems, and the ways in which we can mistake them for the product of conspiracies. Support the show at: www.patreon.com/fuppod Email us at FUPpod@gmail.com Facebook Discussion Group: www.facebook.com/groups/341683697248941 Twitter: What The FUP? Podcast (@FuPpod) / Twitter

Is a cigar just a cigar? Is the shoe a sign that we should be thinking not of the things of the body, but of the face and head? In this episode, we continue our four-part discussion of conspiracy thinking, focusing today on the psychology of conspiracy thinking, with a special focus on QAnon and apophenia. Benjamin Dow and colleagues' paper, “The COVID-19 pandemic and the search for structure: Social media and conspiracy theories” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/S3IH2XYS8YGQCMYDQHX6?target=10.1111/spc3.12636 Berkowitz, “A Game Designer's Analysis of QAnon” https://medium.com/curiouserinstitute/a-game-designers-analysis-of-qanon-580972548be5 Stewartson, “QAnon Is an Enormous Alternate Reality Game (ARG) Run by Malevolent Puppetmasters” https://medium.com/@registrarproject17/qanon-is-an-enormous-alternate-reality-game-arg-run-by-malevolent-puppetmasters-27e6b098ce9b Douglas, Sutton, & Cichocka (2017), “The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0963721417718261 Conspirituality Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conspirituality/id1515827446 Ward and Voas (2011) “The Emergence of Conspirituality” https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/research/publications/520482 “Conspirituality Explains why the wellness world fell for QAnon” https://www.vice.com/en/article/93wq73/conspirituality-explains-why-the-wellness-world-fell-for-qanon Support the show at: www.patreon.com/fuppod Email us at FUPpod@gmail.com Facebook Discussion Group: www.facebook.com/groups/341683697248941 Twitter: What The FUP? Podcast (@FuPpod) / Twitter

Why was Brian involved in radical leftist political circles? Why? By whom? Was Brian's election rigged? Did good people prevent the rigging? This is part one of our four-parter on conspiracy thinking, and we kick things off by finding out a little more about Brian's personal history with conspiracy theories and spiritualism. Blowback, by Christopher Simpson https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KGMIW7A/ The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate,” by John D. Marks https://www.amazon.com/Search-Manchurian-Candidate-Behavioral-Sciences/dp/0393307948 Whiteout, by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair https://www.amazon.com/Whiteout-Drugs-Press-Alexander-Cockburn/dp/1859842585 Self Empunishment, by Brian Walsby http://www.pelekinesis.com/catalog/brian_walsby-self-empunishment.html Support the show at: www.patreon.com/fuppod Email us at FUPpod@gmail.com Facebook Discussion Group: www.facebook.com/groups/341683697248941 Twitter: What The FUP? Podcast (@FuPpod) / Twitter

Do you remember when Bill Gates made a fake winter storm in Texas (or something like that)? Is a change in climate of 0.6 degrees really that big of a deal? What's a complex system, and why? In this episode, Brian gives us the break down of weather and climate as complex systems, and tackles some common climate change denial talking points. Merchants of Doubt, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway: https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Obscured/dp/1608193942 Sue Sturgis, “Who's behind the ‘information attacks' on climate scientists?” https://www.facingsouth.org/2011/11/special-investigation-whos-behind-the-information-.html Skeptical Science, Global Warming & Climate Change Myths: https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php Support the show at: www.patreon.com/fuppod Email us at FUPpod@gmail.com Facebook Discussion Group: www.facebook.com/groups/341683697248941 Twitter: What The FUP? Podcast (@FuPpod) / Twitter

Were spatial reasoning abilities shaped by Pleistocene sexual division of labor? Are women immutably terrible at math and physics? Are we starting a multi-cult commune? This is part 2 of our discussion about the history of "classical liberalism." This time, we dig into the science of cognitive sex differences. Sexual Division of Labor: Energetic and Evolutionary Scenarios https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.10074 Sex Differences in Spatial Cognition: Advancing the Conversation https://tdlc.ucsd.edu/global/images/Levine_et%20al_WIREs_Mental_Rotation_review.pdf Nuance: A Love Story: My affair with the intellectual dark web https://gen.medium.com/nuance-a-love-story-ae6a14991059 The Mind Has No Sex? https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674576254 Support the show at: www.patreon.com/fuppod Email us at FUPpod@gmail.com Facebook Discussion Group: www.facebook.com/groups/341683697248941 Twitter: What The FUP? Podcast (@FuPpod) / Twitter

Lots of Sam Harris's friends are "classical liberals," but what does this really mean? Does classic rock hold the key? This is part 1 of our discussion about the history of "classical liberalism," and how it gave rise to the "we're not ideological" ideology of the Intellectual Dark Web et al., especially regarding their views on women. Next time, we dig into the science of cognitive sex differences. Why the ‘Classical Liberal' is Making a Comeback https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/06/16/why-the-classical-liberal-is-making-a-comeback-218667 Stop Assuming The Intellectual Dark Web Is A Political Movement https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/23/stop-assuming-intellectual-dark-web-political-movement/ Nuance: A Love Story: My affair with the intellectual dark web https://gen.medium.com/nuance-a-love-story-ae6a14991059 The Mind Has No Sex? https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674576254 Support the show at: www.patreon.com/fuppod Email us at FUPpod@gmail.com Facebook Discussion Group: www.facebook.com/groups/341683697248941 Twitter: What The FUP? Podcast (@FuPpod) / Twitter

Which insurgency will YOU join: the plutocrats or the criminal underclass? In this episode, we discuss Dr. Nils Gilman's fascinating paper "The Twin Insurgency" (https://www.the-american-interest.com/2014/06/15/the-twin-insurgency/). Brian takes the lead on the political and historical context of the rise of neoliberalism in the United States, and Lindsey connects the literature on evolved cheater detection mechanisms to political rhetoric. Here's a link to Tomasello's paper The Ultra-Social Animal, which comes up in the second half of the show: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ejsp.2015. Support the show at: https://www.patreon.com/fuppod Email us at FUPpod@gmail.com Facebook Discussion Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/341683697248941 Twitter: What The FUP? Podcast (@FuPpod) / Twitter

Should we wear masks? Who can say whether Rand Paul or Anthony Fauci's stance on this question is better? Brian weighs in on the physics, and Lindsey talks about the difficulties of seeing the limits of one's own expertise. Email us at FUPpod@gmail.com Facebook Discussion Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/341683697248941 Twitter: What The FUP? Podcast (@FuPpod) / Twitter

What a FUPing mess. Did a biologist get canceled for claiming that there are "only two biological sexes?" Was a scientific conference unfairly maligned for heresy? In this episode, we discuss the evidence for whether academia and the sciences are hostile to political conservatives and that the scientific consensus in several disciplines are being guided by political dogma. For more information about the claims we discuss, check out Lee Jussim's blogpost here: https://psychrabble.medium.com/the-threat-to-academic-freedom-from-academics-4685b1705794  Email us at FUPpod@gmail.com Facebook Discussion Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/341683697248941  Twitter: What The FUP? Podcast (@FuPpod) / Twitter

FUP you, Brian. Because of you, the makers of this terrible movie got a few dollars richer. Do we create our days? Have we infected the quantum? In this episode, we discuss quantum weirdness, sophomoric pseudo-psychology, and the grift of New Thought underlying What The Bleep Do We Know?  Email us at FUPpod@gmail.com Facebook Discussion Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/341683697248941  Twitter: What The FUP? Podcast (@FuPpod) / Twitter

What the FUP is a FUP? Who are Lindsey and Brian? Can we ever really know anyone? Is eating eggs OK? How many ghosts can you check out from a library at once? In this pre-show introduction, we explain what the FUP we're doing here.  Our first two episodes will be out Monday, March 15, 2021.