2: Conspirituality in Zach Bush and J.P. Sears

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

To the layperson, Dr. Zach Bush’s vision of a resurrected microbiome as being the answer to modern illnesses sounds appealing. His basic argument: we’ve been weeding ourselves to death, externally and internally, depleting the biodiversity of our soils and bodies. He seems to have done typical clinical work (in mostly private settings) in internal medicine, endocrinology, and hospice care. But with no publications or experience with epidemiology, why is he being tapped by anti-vax activists to speak on COVID-19. Perhaps because when he runs up against the limit of his knowledge, he offers spiritual sermons. J.P. Sears does something similar, though from a different direction, without being signal-boosted by anti-vaxxers. Sears’s deeper colors show when he reaches the limits of his satire: he’s a life coach medical libertarian who’s willing to cherry-pick data and mock concerns about the immunocompromised in support of…we’re not quite sure. Show Notes Zach Bush interview with Del Bigtree Zach Bush monologue with Rich Roll JP Sears videos: Media | Response to Media | Blue Pill People JP Sears’s podcasts: Tim Kennedy | Viral Video Summary of Santa Clara study cited by Bush and Sears Sayer Ji’s Instagram meme Tim Kennedy and waterboarding -- -- -- Support us on Patreon Pre-order Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat: America | Canada Follow us on Instagram | Twitter: Derek | Matthew | Julian Original music by EarthRise SoundSystem Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Glassbox Media Podcast. Hey everyone. Welcome to Conspiratoriality. I'm Derek Barris. I'm Matthew Remsky. I'm Julian Walker.
0:28.0	And it's been a cataclysmic week and on behalf of all of us I just want to say that we hope that all of you out there are keeping safe and that if you are protesting that you're safe and
0:44.5	supported if you're able to help protesters that you're able to do that and I
0:49.4	just also want to say personally as a Canadian it's it's horrific to watch full-on police state brutality south of the border but it's it really
0:57.8	shouldn't let outsiders like myself lose focus on our own like structural racismenities. So I just wanted to start by saying that.
1:07.0	This week, our episode two, we're going to be looking at the conspiratoriality of Zach Bush and J.P. Sears.
1:15.0	Seemingly different conspiratorialities represented by these guys.
1:21.0	First we've got holistic type MD Dr. Zach Bush who's made a big
1:25.4	splash with a mesmerizing interview posted May 17th. It's been viewed 1.4
1:31.0	million times on a top anti-Vax platform. Now he starts out talking about the
1:36.6	microbiome but he brings it home with a sermon about how we're actually beings made of
1:42.1	light and so we shouldn't fear a little old virus.
1:46.3	But then secondly we're going to be looking at erstwhile satirist
1:50.8	J.P. Sears known over the past several years for poking good-natured fun at the New Age.
1:57.6	But strangely, and beginning with a viral video released on May 6th that m's mainstream pandemic reporting. This has almost 4 million views.
2:06.4	Sears seems to have been rebranding himself to a COVID truth or troll.
2:12.0	But first up, Derek is going to outline the research findings at the
2:17.1	root of our project. He's going to give us the rundown on a 2011 paper by sociologists Charlotte Ward and David Voss. It's called The Emergence
2:26.2	of Conspiratoriality. Then we'll do a few current events stories before we plunge
2:31.4	into the worlds of Bush and Sears.
2:34.0	Okay, thanks Matthew.
2:36.0	So a few weeks ago, maybe a couple months ago now, my friend Ben Ford
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