The Midnight Skeptic: Recent Episodes

David Murphy

Science talk, modern skepticism, light politics, random thoughts.

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Petrochemical industry disinfo; A Trans high schooler in Oklahoma.

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How the GOP became sickening MAGAs! Evangelicals in Africa & witches!

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The WHO 'endorses' traditional & alternative medicines ?

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Consumer alert: Ayurvedic "medicine" + lead content ! Fani Willis: YAY!

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Youths continue with their climate change lawsuits!

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What makes a supporter of the Orange Sociopathic Bloatbag??

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Some free advice for GOP MAGAs in the 2024 Presidential election.

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Commentary on Dr. Debra Soh's podcast with Christopher Rufo.

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Greenwashing by plastics industry and fossil fuel industry: good SCOTUS !

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Held v. Montana & Juliana v. U.S. YAY! Youths are abandoning religion! YAY!!

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The "Two Santas" way the GOP tries to keep in power for their wealthy corporate sugar daddies!!

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Bad news about an upcoming SCOTUS decision about voting rights; Gun safety laws passed in Connecticut; Yay!!

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Reality Winner : hero and patriot, Julian Assange : creep; Christian home-school cult.

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The "Negro Leagues" and C.R.T. Florida travel advisories; Southern Babtist membership declining!!

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Good news from the Williams Institute at UCLA; MAGA protestors @ Drag Storytime here in N. California ???

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RWDS is the 'norm' for GOP MAGA Head Republicans now. So sad for our country.

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In Texas you have to dress as a 'Real Man,' or a 'Real Woman.' GOP war of gender affirming care continues.

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GOP MAGA Head bills to make life as hard as possible for LGBTQ people--especially Trans people. Why?? What's their thinking??

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MAGA Texas Gov. Abbott pardoning a murder of a liberal protester in Austin. MAGA states lowered life expectancy!

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Who sends death threats and hate mail? GOP MAGA Heads, that's who! A brave W. VA trans middle school girl!!

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AR-15 marketing; anti-science at Hillsdale College; Shell Oil & Climate Change--they knew!!

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Educastion dictated by the 'Lowest Common Denominator' of MAGA parents!!

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The GOP just hates giving anyone 'free' anything, but 4 States now have free school lunches. GOP hates this!!

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Raised in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.  A window into the U.S. of those times.  Racism and all!!

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Dwayne Wade's moving, heartfelt message to his daughter;  also Nationalize the Railroads; Jaimee Mitchell, a HORRIBLE person!!

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The derailment @ Palestine, OH; Gender Dysphoria and MAGA Head GOP hate!

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Pres. Jimmy Carter's administration was a good one, but his post-Presidency was great.  The US would have been better if he had won a second term!!

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The Midnight Skeptic calls out Utah Gov. Cox, S. Dakopta Gov. Kristi Noem, and others for anti-trans kids laws. Plus Black History Month: time to ban books about Black sports heroes and what RACISM they had to endure!

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DeSantis, Cruz, Gosar, Bobert, Taylor-Green, Gohmert, Oh MY!  Oh My!!!  MAGA Heads all!

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DeSantis, Cruz, Gosar, Bobert, Taylor-Green, Gohmert, Oh my, Oh my;  MAGA Heads all !!

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A rebuttal and discussion of Bill Maher's Real Time (HBO-Fridays) rantings.  Identity politics, inclusiveness.

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All religions are misogynistic and tamp down the human spirit; Women do NOT benefit from religion !!

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Humanity has NOT benefitted from religion, especially not women !!

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FBI against Rev. Martin L. King back in the 60s;  Racist 'Moms For Liberty.'

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Words have meaning, don't let MAGA Heads pollute our language for their benefit;  Reality Winner--Patriot!

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I am proudly WOKE !!   Spineless McCarthy will have a ahnd at governing the U.S.  Woe is us !!

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Kari Lake is now an official LOSER--just like her idol the Sociopathic Orange Bloatbag of Mar-A-Lago !!

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More on MAGA Head book banning;  Creepy Christians protest Drag Story Time and books.

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I mock and make fun of far-right-wing militias and their obsessions with Drag Story Time performers.

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Types of MAGA Heads, almost all are NOT good; 'Free To Be You & Me'

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MAGA Head Fl & VA Governor's 'election fraud units' worse than useless

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Two women making life difficult for right-wing media; MAGA Head parents complaining about C.R.T. in our schools.

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Oklahoma Governor Stitt & Christian Nationalism;  More Florida 'Performance Cruelty' by MAGA Heads.

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Research on the benefits of 'cat petting.'  This makes FoxNews angry. Good!!

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Same sex marriage is now legal in CUBA !!!  Homicides up in MAGA states.

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News from QUACKWATCH; California school boards are being infested with MAGA Heads

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The female clitoris & medical knowledge; Bad News FGM still practiced; The Orange Sociopathic Bloatbag & rape trial !!

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Why MAGA Heads just "Their Guy" to win in Georgia : to 'own the libs.'  America's Frontline Doctors are QUACKS !!

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Hooray for Virginia high school students for supporting their LGBTQ friends over Gov. Younkin's 'guidelines.'

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MAGA Head fears that their kids will read about how badly blacks were treated, will read about kids who haven't found themselves yet.

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Gender Queer is NOT obscene--court victory in Virginia;  Yay for brooklyn Public Library!!

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King Charles III, his advocacy for alternative medicine;  voter fraud is virtually non-existent!

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MAGA attacks on librarians.  An author who donated to a 'defunded' library!  YAY!

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Right Wing efforts to ban books, get rid of LGBTQ mentions, & ban what they think of as C.R.T.

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Conservatives running for School Boards to stop C.R.T. & LGBTQ issues !!

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Librarian suing a MAGA head book burner; The Keller Independent School Dist. list of pulled books !!

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Samuel Alito, the  SCOTUS' Christian Nationalist;  5 religious leaders in FL sue DeSantis.  Yay!!

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What you need to believe to be a 'good' Republican in 2022.

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Just what we need, a new and improved assault gun from Sig Sauer !!

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Proud Boys becoming the GOP's 'stormtroopers.'  Anti-trans hate !!

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Roe v. Vade ramifications; sex and gender; marketing guns to kids !!

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The oil industry, Christian Nationalism, Q-Anon cult which has the most influence on the GOP Cult??

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Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony; Drag Queen story times interrupted by MAGA haters.

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FINA ruling on transwomen swimmers; glyphosate warnings, Texas GOP's hateful, stupid platform

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Corruption of the English language.  I am a cisgender white male.  I don't mind being required to use these new terms !!

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Republicans (AKA : NRA toads) will never allow even incremental good changes in out gun laws.

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More Good News; PRIDE month; Naomi Kutin--powerlifter; coffee drinking = longer life!!  Yay!!

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What is "fair" for girl's sports, and "fair" and "inclusive" for transgender youth?  Don't bother to ask a MAGA Head Republican !!

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Some good news: Women's Soccer;  Horrible GOP Pennsylvania Republican candidate.

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Horrible GOP Governor candidate in Pennsylvania.  "Pro-Life ????"  Seriously??

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Roe v. Wade overturned is only the beginning of the Republican Dystopia !!

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To whom does a woman's body belong?  Right answer : HERSELF, and not to Republicans or evanglicals

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To whom does a woman's body belong?  Right answer : herself and NOT the Republicans or Evangelicals or MAGA Heads.

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Madeline Allbright quote about our future.  Pastor Greg Locke's rants about expelling demons of gayness.

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More MAGA Head cultist crazyness.

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White evangelical Protestants, GOP hate and fear, wokeness, Muslim mobs and blasphemy

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The LGBTQ community, "Wokeness" and Disney protests.

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Republicans' War on Trans kids.  Going against "God's Great Plan"

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Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings, GOP racism, Transgender Visibility Day (3-31)!

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Terms that gin up anger and fear in Republicans.

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Florida's "Don't Say Gay" schoolkids' rebellion

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Right-wing trucker convoy protest failure!!  GOP war on Trans Kids.

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Florida's Senator Rick Scott's GOP platform idiocy !!

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Is Russell Brand "Right Wing"?  No, I don't think so.  More on book banning.

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Republican Dystopias are coming !!

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Joe Rogan is NOT a right-wing GOPer.  CFI lawsuit against Walmart and CVS

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Glen Younkin wants parents to 'snitch' on teachers who mention RACE to their students.

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How not to raise your kids so they won't become republicans! Acceptance, kindness, sharing, not greedy, anger-free !!

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GOP attacks on teachers' unobstructed classroom instruction, books, bathrooms for all. girls' sports.

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Why are such angry, fearful, horrible people becoming GOP politicians?  What do they fear? Chgange!!

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I'll finish the last two chapters of 'Ruby Bridges", Republican anti-CRT discomfort (Oh, my!!!) Oklahoma book censorship !!

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Tennessee and Texas Republican book banning, Ruby Bridges (my reading), C.R.T.

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The book that The Cult of the Orange Sociopath fears.  Transwomen and sports.

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A preview of (I hope not) the coming Republican Dystopia !

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Republicans are NOT a political party.  They are the Cult Of the Orange sociopath !!

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The danger the GOP/MAGA Head/conservative/Trumpers pose to this nation.  It HAS to stop!!

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Alex Jones default loss in court because of the Sandy Hook lies

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GOP / MAGA Head death threats to Poll Workers.  Some enviro good news !!

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Republicans (Trumpers, MAGA Heads, conservatives) fear truth, our real history, and books.

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Scottsboro Boys, the origin of "WOKE" and GOP cruelty.

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Things that get Republican's shorts in a knot.  Anti-mask harassment of school boards.

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There ARE such things as Rational Republicans, not MAGA Heads !!

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Good news from San Jose, two !!  C.R.T.  GOP death wish !

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Send your votes on which Republican quotes about rape are the most sickening to : themidnightskeptic@gmail.com

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The usual GOP/conservative/MAGA Head/Trumper stupidity.  Abortion, voting, racism.

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The GOP / Conservatives / MAGA Heads / Trumpers have become just stupid, angry people this country can do without !!

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The GOP/Conservatives/MAGA Heads/ Trumpers have become the angry, stupid people that this country can do without !!

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Republicans as American Taliban.  I compare and contrast.  Woo Hooo !!

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Too many MEN on the Planet.  Sex skewed male / female ratios.  Transwomen in sports.

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A lot of good environmental news, anti-religion screeds, .secretive JWs !!

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The Catholic Church's cruelties toward "fallen women"

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Horrible abuses committed by the Catholic Church-run Canadian residential schools for First Nation's children.

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I believe that ALL religions are misogynous and BAD for the advancement of mankind!!

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Republican bashing, religion bashing, Supreme Court good decisions

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Catholic gifts to humanity : waterboarding and Native American residential schools to "assimilate & Christianize" them.

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Spinoza's take on God, 100th anneversary of the Tulsa race massacre.

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Reparations?  "CRT" and the GOP

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A quick primer on the Tulsa / Greenwood race riots ; Rick Santorum's Christian History of the U.S.

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Republicans (ugh) and anti-trans bills, anti-voter bills, anti-women bills.

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Republican and right-wing Christian bashing.  Trans youth.  Voting in Georgia.  Transgirls in school sports.

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The ERA, ratify it now, do away with the deadline.  No to anti-trans bills working their nefarious way thru REPUBLICAN state houses!!

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U.B.I. taking hold  (hopefully) in this country,  Republicans!!!  Rgad!!  Toxic Masculinity in Baptist circles.

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A tribute to Laurence Ferlinghetti, also movies about male stalkers.


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Movies, Masculinity, Harrison Ford!


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The midnight Skeptic talks Trumplings and feminism.


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Juliane Werding's 1972 German hit song using the melody from The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (1969)


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The Midnight Skeptic discusses  The Night The Drove Old Dixie Down.


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The Midnight Skeptic talks the trump legacy, NOAA appointees, and The Day Conny Kramer Died.


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The Midnight Skeptic talks nuclear Power and Purdue Pharma.


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