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Once a week Myles Power, James Gurney and, on occasion, Buck Mulligan come together to try and make the world a slightly more rational place. Their podcast, The League of Nerds (TLoNs), is a light-hearted glance into some of the stranger and more serious realms of irrationality that, unlike other similar podcasts, feels more like an informal chat down the pub with friends rather than an unfriendly academic lecture. Each show lasts about an hour and the Nerds are often joined by a special guest who brings their own thoughts, knowledge, and experience to the show, making every episode fresh and unique. These guests range from highly credited scientists to Hollywood actors. A particularly interesting guest was the lead author of a HIV denialist book who tried to convince James (a Dr of microbiology who works on viruses) that viruses do not in fact exist. The Nerds are also big on building an online community and encourage their listeners to submit questions for the show in the hope of giving a platform to people whose voices might otherwise go unheard.
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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.… Read more "#197 Fun with Mormonism"
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… Read more "F**K you Buck Mulligan – The Science Wars, King Crocoduck- #013"
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… Read more "#196 – Tyranny"
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… Read more "#195 Holocaust Denialism"
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… Read more "#194 – Conspiracy Conspiracy"
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… Read more "F**K you Buck Mulligan – Fake Fighting: Martial Arts Woo – #012"
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… Read more "#193 – Let’s Engage some Millennials!"
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’.… Read more "#192 – Get Your Life Back Now"
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… Read more "#191 – Battle of Ideas"
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… Read more "F**K you Buck Mulligan – Mythicist Milwaukee – #011"
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… Read more "#190 – I was a 9/11 Truther"
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… Read more "#189 – Extremism"
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… Read more "#188 – Plant Whispering and Random DNA with Prof Kevin Folta"
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… Read more "F**K you Buck Mulligan – Talking to 9/11 Truther – #010"
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… Read more "#187 – The Waco Siege"
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… Read more "#186 – The Anarchists Cook Book"
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… Read more "#185 – An Ex-scientologist"
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… Read more "F**K you Buck Mulligan – Free Speech and Sorority Girls – #009"
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… Read more "#184 – Agent Orange"
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Holy shit. Mad kudos to you gentlemen for being as patient and respectful as you were with your guest. I was rolling my eyes so hard by the 10min mark I could see my occipital lobe. I could not have held my temper with him. Edit: Also, you could make a potentially lethal drinking game where you take a drink every time he goes *moment of silence* *mouth audibly pops open*"Well, guys..."
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