Wellness to Weaponization: How Women Are Drawn into Conspiracy Extremism (with Noelle Cook)

Mission Implausible

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3.9 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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From wellness culture and yoga influencers to QAnon forums and January 6, the pathways into conspiracy extremism aren’t always obvious — especially for women. Identity and meaning can quietly turn misinformation into ideology. Author and researcher Noelle Cook discuss did direct fieldwork with women involved in conspiracy movements and the Capitol attack. Extremism doesn’t always look extreme. Sometimes it looks like community. Radicalization — it’s not just for men.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.9	1969, Malcolm and Martin are gone.
0:07.8	America is in crisis.
0:09.5	At a Morehouse college, the students make their move.
0:12.3	These students, including a young Samuel L. Jackson,
0:15.4	locked up the members of the board of trustees, including Martin Luther King's senior.
0:20.6	It's the true story of protests and rebellion in black American history that you'll never
0:24.9	forget.
0:25.9	I'm Hans Charles.
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0:34.7	When segregation was a law, one mysterious black club owner, Charlie Fitzgerald, had his own
0:40.2	rules.
0:41.2	Segregation and the day integration at night.
0:44.3	It was like stepping on another world.
0:46.7	Was he a businessman?
0:48.1	A criminal.
0:49.6	A hero.
0:50.8	Charlie was an example of power.
0:53.8	They had to crush him.
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