RE-RELEASE: Conflict Language (Who‘s Authority is it Anyway?)

Down the Wormhole

While we are hard at work on the next season, we are re-releasing some of our favorite episodes. This one was our fifth episode way back on September 4th 2019. When we recorded this, we had no idea how the battle for scientific and religious authority would devolve into a battle for our very lives. Should we trust the institutions that created these vaccines? Should we trust our religious leaders who claim to speak for God? Should we trust what the internet has to say about health when we can't even trust it to tell us the truth about the hit 90's cartoon, Street Sharks?

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Produced by Zack Jackson
Music by Zack Jackson and Barton Willis

PS - Zack's audio did not record properly, so we had to use the backup recording which is why it sounds so bad compared to the others.

Show Notes:

Street Sharks and the problem with history:
https://www.geek.com/tech/how-i-used-lies-about-a-cartoon-to-prove-history-is-meaningless-on-the-internet-1656188/

The definitive guide to the Denver Airport conspiracy:
https://www.denverpost.com/2016/10/31/definitive-guide-to-denver-international-airport-conspiracy-theories/

Hawaii Telescope Project, Long Disputed, Will Begin Construction:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/science/hawaii-telescope-tmt-mauna-kea.html

The Oven of Akhnai:
https://www.sefaria.org/Bava_Metzia.59b.1?ven=William_Davidson_Edition_-_English&lang=bi
Note from Zack: After editing the past few episodes, I realized that I've mentioned Thomas Paine at least five or six thousand times. This is because I just finished a massive biography on him, and have had no one to process it with. I do apologize and will henceforth make every effort to diversify my 18th/19th century pop culture references in future episodes. I will leave you with this gem from the October 1783 edition of The Onion...
https://www.theonion.com/historical-archives-i-cannot-help-that-women-are-oft-a-1819584502