653: CDC Ya Edition
The Scathing Atheist
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🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Headlines:
CDC in full revolt over RFK Jr’s bullshit: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/health/cdc-monarez-kennedy-vaccines.html and https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/opinion/cdc-leaders-kennedy.html
Republican congressional candidate torches Qur’an in hate-fueled campaign ad: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/republican-congressional-candidate
Republicans double down on “thoughts and prayers” as an answer to mass shootings: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/28/politics/thoughts-and-prayers-shootings-vance-analysis and
https://www.christianpost.com/news/greg-laurie-franklin-graham-respond-to-critics-of-prayer.html
Quebec plans to table bill banning prayer in public: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/public-prayer-ban-quebec-1.7619985
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, the following podcast is not safe for work, but that's more of a problem with the work than with the podcast. |
| 0:06.4 | This week's episode of The Skathing Atheist is brought to you by the fact that Silk Song comes out the day after we record. |
| 0:12.9 | And now the Skating Atheist. |
| 0:15.3 | Hi, I'm Koa, and the reality that I barely passed my written test, and somehow I got behind a wheel for lessons today, |
| 0:22.6 | proves that we did in fact evolve from filthy monkey men. |
| 0:26.1 | Keep out of California for a couple months, people. |
| 0:50.7 | Thank you. It's Thursday. |
| 0:52.4 | It's September 4th. |
| 1:13.2 | And it's eat an extra dessert day. Not an extra if I always have to. I'm no illusions. I'm Eli Bosnick. I'm Heathenright. I'm from Ralph Nader's, New Jersey. How dare you? And our Michigan away across, Georgia. This is a skating east. Oh, this week's episode. The CDC deals with a brainworm. Quebec doesn't enjoy Islam incorrectly. |
| 1:17.6 | And Ross Dalthett will dry his hand at neuroscience this time. |
| 1:20.0 | But first, the diatriat. The Dieton. Okay, I'll admit, never been more disappointed by a no obituary. |
| 1:41.7 | From the beginning, the rumors that he was dead and they were hiding that fact, like |
| 1:45.4 | Stalinist Russia, those were always a little silly. |
| 1:47.4 | We're like Stalinist Russia in completely different ways. |
| 1:50.8 | But the rumor that he'd had a stroke or some other malady that left him visibly incapacitated, |
| 1:56.1 | well, that sure did wet my appetite. |
| 1:58.8 | And in the 24 hours leading up to his proof of life press conference, |
| 2:03.2 | social media was just giving us a steady drip of promising rumors. There were rumors that he |
| 2:07.5 | couldn't stand unassisted, that he'd lost the powers of speech, that he needed a walker to get |
| 2:12.4 | around. Now, none of those were credibly sourced, of course, but that didn't stop motherfuckers |
| 2:17.1 | from sharing him far and why, did it? |
| 2:19.7 | I mean, think about what a cell phone this really is. |
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