RFT - Ep 285 Anti-Anti-Vax Web Attack Edition This week i share one of favorite pod cast Best of the Left and there resent show about the reaction to the Disney Measles Epidemic...the Best of the Left is, like my web wisdom shows, a compilation of the best from online media, this show takes bits from: - Vaccines Don't Cause Autism : Healthcare Triage #12 - On the Anti-Vax Non-troversy : onthemedia - Anti-vaxxer Californians start a new measles outbreak at Disneyland : TWiB nation - Myth: Vacci...
Feb 17, 2015•1 hr
RFT - Ep 284 Sins of the Harper Edition This week things to remember in the lead up to the 2015 Election: Defunding Veterans affairs Lack of support for Vets Stealth cuts via unspent budgets Victimizing Criminals Destabilizing Victim support funding Harper's Enemies list Attack on the AG, PBO and Chief Justice Destroy political independence arms length agencies War on Sex workers Disdain for Social Science/Indigenous Issues In-and-Out Scandal Robo-call scandal Senate Scandal The Duffy Affair C...
Feb 10, 2015•1 hr 2 min
RFT - Ep 283 A Web Wisdom Edition This week
health Triage and the cold, sleep, and flu shots, Space Science and how olds is life, planetary alignment and the future of the sun and earth, TestTube and For-Profit Prisons, Mandatory vaccination, defining terrorism and the difference between Sunnis and Shiites and what is a coup détat, and lastly Its okay to be smart with there is no cold, déjà vu, and why clouds dont fall
and a special rant by Rick Mercer on the budget Check us out online at w...
Feb 03, 2015•1 hr 6 min
RFT - Ep 282 2015 Election Prerequisite Edition This week we look at the record of the Harper government and list the sins and failures that is the Conservative record in the lead up to election 2015. Check us out online at www.radiofreethinker.com and email us at info@radiofreethinker.com and follow us on twitter at @citrrft
Jan 27, 2015•1 hr
RFT - Ep 281 Charlie Hebdo Edition This week Free speech in France, converting climate change denialists, Stephen Fry on the importance of disbelief, Mouseland and election 2015 and in honour of Martin Luther King Jr Day, a broadcast of the famous I have a dream speech. Check us out online at www.radiofreethinker.com and email us at info@radiofreethinker.com and follow us on twitter at @citrrft...
Jan 20, 2015•1 hr 2 min
RFT - Ep 280 What Happened 2014 Edition This episode we take a retrospective and the biggest events, stories and the like for 2014
. Curiosity makes several landmarks
Opportunity, Cassini, Rossetta, Voyager, MAVAN
We also had Ebola, ISIS, Crimea, and Gaza Lets not forget GamerGate, Ray Rice, Dalhousie Denstry
and much more
Check us out online at www.radiofreethinker.com and email us at info@radiofreethinker.com and follow us on twitter at @citrrft...
Jan 13, 2015•1 hr
RFT - Classic - Best RFT of 2014 This week encore segments : FreeTrade
now and then
and be afraid of the TPP Sharkumantary
the declining state of science documentaries The Iraq Dilemma and Globalized Ethics. Check us out online at www.radiofreethinker.com and email us at info@radiofreethinker.com and follow us on twitter at @citrrft
Jan 06, 2015•1 hr
RFT - Classic - Best of the 270s A round up of some of the best segments form the last 10 shows... This time: Is Islam the most violent religion
now or ever? and How we made Iraq
a history of the failed state. Check us out online at www.radiofreethinker.com and email us at info@radiofreethinker.com and follow us on twitter at @citrrft
Dec 30, 2014•1 hr
RFT - Ep 279 Santa VS Jesus Edition This week why Christmas is better for non-believer than believers, a flash back with Christmas reality check, Humanism and Christmas, and we end the show with a cavalcade of Christmas music. Check us out online at www.radiofreethinker.com and email us at info@radiofreethinker.com and follow us on twitter at @citrrft
Dec 26, 2014•1 hr 2 min
RFT - Ep 278 Totally Torture Edition This week a whine about torture, police and why I have no plans go to the USA, and web wisdom about torture and the militarization of the police Check us out online at www.radiofreethinker.com and email us at info@radiofreethinker.com and follow us on twitter at @citrrft
Dec 16, 2014•1 hr 1 min
RFT - Ep 277 Let's Go GMO Edition This week a whine about the threat of AI to the future of humanity... Also, everything you need to know about GMO - We cover the basics of genetics... - How we have manipulated the genome of plants and animals for countless millenniums... - How are GMO type foods evaluated... - How anti-GMO is often the same as climate change denialism... - Where most anti-GMO-ers get the science wrong... - How anti-GMO conflates with anti-Monsanto, anti-capitalism, etc... - A...
Dec 09, 2014•1 hr
RFT - Ep 276 More Web Wisdom Edition his week a full course meal of web wisdom
Misconceptions from the Movies Mental Floss Misconceptions You Learned in School Mental Floss Myths and misconceptions about evolution Alex Gendler Gravity and the human body Jay Buckey The deadly irony of gunpowder Eric Rosado If superpowers were real- Immortality Joy Lin Insults by Shakespeare April Gudenrath Is math discovered or invented- Jeff Dekofsky How fiction can change reality Jessica Wis...
Dec 02, 2014•1 hr 3 min
RFT - Ep 275 Mess in Mesopotamian Edition This week an attempted rant about how the legal system in Canada will allow a little girl to die because she is native. Urged by a loyal listener, we do an in-depth look at the History of Iraq...from the dawn of civilization till now. We will answer the questions, did Saddam have WMDs, did Bush lie the US into war...and my own pet theory about how a war in the 70 lead to the current quagmire. Also, some web wisdom from Glen Greenwald about why it is st...
Nov 25, 2014•1 hr
RFT - Ep 275 Mess in Mesopotamian Edition This week an attempted rant about how the legal system in Canada will allow a little girl to die because she is native. Urged by a loyal listener, we do an in-depth look at the History of Iraq...from the dawn of civilization till now. We will answer the questions, did Saddam have WMDs, did Bush lie the US into war...and my own pet theory about how a war in the 70 lead to the current quagmire. Also, some web wisdom from Glen Greenwald about why it is st...
Nov 18, 2014•1 hr
RFT - Ep 273 - Electric Element Edition This week rant is about which poppy should you wear this remembrance day...white, red or both... In Five new things We talk about: - What IS electricity - The duality of electrons - DNA in blood cells - What is your blood made of - And how are all the elements of the universe made We also close some web wisdom...a debate about the colour of your poppy...how you skin heals itself and how we are the cosmos's way to know itself Check us out online at www.radi...
Nov 11, 2014•1 hr 2 min
RFT - Ep 272 - Left in Toronto Edition This week a web wisdom bonanza
planned obsolescence, not all conspiracies are false
Doctors conflict of interest, the end of everything, UN climate change report and what happened to Olivia Chow in Toronto
Check us out online at www.radiofreethinker.com and email us at info@radiofreethinker.com and follow us on twitter at @citrrft
Nov 04, 2014•1 hr 2 min
RFT - Ep 271 - Halloween Edition This week are ghost possible? What is the origin of witches? We also discuss the commercialization of Halloween that has turned into an almost 8 billion dollar industry south of the boarder. But we start the show with a blast from the past as we do a recasting of our very first Halloween special...where we discuss the origins of Halloween...the real world origins of vampires and werewolves and how dangerous is taking candy from strangers? Check us out online at w...
Oct 28, 2014•1 hr
Radio Free Thinkers - Islamophobia Edition
Oct 21, 2014•1 hr
Radio Free Thinkers - 5 New Things Edition This week a new segment
5 new things you might not know.. What is a planet? Until 2006, that term has no offical meaning. When it did, we went from 9 to 8 planets. Life-like killers There is a things that technically are not life but are life-like and kill millions of people each year
what are they? What happened to 10 DAYS in 1582? In what could be one of the greatest conspiracies of the all times
learn how the Catholic Church made 10 days disappea...
Oct 07, 2014•1 hr
Radio Free Thinkers - Ig Nobel 2014 Edition This week a look at some of the Ig Nobel Awards... - neuroscience prize: Seeing Jesus in toast - mental health: Is it mentally hazardous to own a cat - physics: Frictional Coefficient under Banana Skin - biology: Dogs are sensitive the Earth's magnetic field - nutrition:Infant feces used to make sausages...no, really. - aesthetic: Arts affect on pain...they use lasers! And some web wisdom.... - Pareidolia - Why we see things not really there - Taxoplas...
Sep 30, 2014•1 hr 1 min
Radio Free Thinkers - ISIS Edition This week - We postpone our rant to remind everyone that the Ebola epidemic is not only continuing in Africa but gaining momentum. We share a little web wisdom from about the scale and urgency for the world to react. Also, we take an extended look at ISIS or the Islamic State...who are they, how have they gain such success...should be be afraid or worried about them. We also discuss the very real dangers present by the US reaction to ISIS...will we have a repea...
Sep 16, 2014•1 hr
Radio Free Thinkers - Teachers Strike Edition This week - A rant about the Teachers strike
who is right? We take a skeptical is not balanced look at the issues that precipitated and prolongs the educational unrest. Also Don rambles about how a hundred years ago the FIRST mechanized unit of the British Army was the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade
also, how on this day in 1941 Dennis Richie was born
the creator of the C programming language, perhaps the most profound moment in the history...
Sep 09, 2014•1 hr
Radio Free Thinkers - Shark-umantary Edition A rant about mandatory surcharges for criminals
and how it harms victims of crime. A classic example of Harpers bait-and-switch
sidestepping federal responsibility for the well being and health care of victims of crime and shifting it criminals who are unable to pay for these social service
which should be part of the social safety net. Also, with Shark Week gone, we take a look at the decline of science documentaries as they try to compete with Big...
Sep 02, 2014•1 hr 1 min
Radio Free Thinkers - The Something Completely Different Edition This show is a bit of an experiment in style
more rifting, less scripting and things you need to know
This week - There has been much talk about privilege and implicit oppression
notably via race, gender and sexuality. Panti Bliss gave a great talk about this when she was taken to court for calling someone homophobic
as it turned out, she as a gay man cannot
well, you should listen, it is very enlightening
Also, an interview from...
Aug 26, 2014•1 hr 1 min
Radio Free Thinkers - The Goodbye Robin Williams Edition This week whine is a Ebola redux edition
stop talking about a miracle cure and start putting doctors on the ground. When is too much tolerance of intolerance too much? We talk about how a group of Hindu fundamentalist managed to so what every Nazi wish they could do
and they did it with the magic power of RELIGION. What is the Hitler test and how can it help us know when we should and should not tolerate intolerance
Traffic safety and the...
Aug 19, 2014•53 min
Radio Free Thinkers - The Ebola Virus Bias Edition Edition This week whine is about the Ebola Virus
more to the point how what was a page 3 story when it only killed Africans became front page material once a white american gets infected. In the shadow of the all the hype and hysteria, this week we look at the outbreak why its worse than previous and why we really really should not be that worried.. Joining me this week is host emeritus and sometimes historian Ethan Clow as we discuss Harpers l...
Aug 12, 2014•1 hr
Radio Free Thinkers - Canada Goes To War Edition This week an extended look at how the Great War affected Canada. Joining me this week is host emeritus and sometimes historian Ethan Clow. We talk about the defining battles for Canada, their role in the bigger picture of the war. We discuss the darker side of the war when Canada interned thousand of "enemy agents" and forced tens of thousand to register... We note how racism has changed between the two world wars, by pointing out that the vast ma...
Aug 05, 2014•1 hr
RFT - Classic - Best of 250s Facebook big experiment editing you friends feed
why are we not more angry? Justin and the Pope
Justin Trudeau exercises dictatorial powers to deny an anti-abortion candidate from running as a liberal, he then get threatened with excommunication for his pro-choice views
so, we are left wondering is religious people should be banned from public office? The dirty dozen and misreporting toxic food A look at the new prostitution bill...Protection of Communities and Exp...
Jul 29, 2014•1 hr 2 min
Radio Free Thinkers - Gaza's Burning Edition Because of the myopia of main stream media, this week episode will provide alternative views about the crisis in the Gaza strip from the alternative media This week's whine - Gaza and the biased reporting by the main stream media Web wisdom...Israeli Propaganda and the Politics of Revenge against Gaza - interview with Ali Abunimah and Max Blumenthal discuss how the Israeli government manipulated the public into accepting an escalated military operatio...
Jul 15, 2014•1 hr
Radio Free Thinkers - Who Shot the Archduke Edition Facebook big experiment editing you friends feed
why are we not more angry? Snowden one year later
what have we learned and what have we done about it? And Legal anachronisms
immorality still a crime and crime comic still illegal Check us out online at www.radiofreethinker.com and email us at info@radiofreethinker.com and follow us on twitter at @citrrft...
Jul 08, 2014•1 hr 1 min
