The poets (formerly) of Boost House Midwest share their latest work. Psychics make predictions and read horoscopes. (Recorded 2019-08-10) (Twitter: @necrobranson @intellegint @charlesraustin @ByYourLogic)

093 - Live in Brooklyn: The Other Side... And Beyond

Since the early 2000s, a spate of forensics-focused TV shows and films have emerged on the pop culture scene. Years after Law & Order premiered in the '90s, shows like CSI, NCIS, and The Mentalist followed, trumpeting the scientific merit of analyzing blood-spatter patterns, reading facial and bodily cues, and using the latest fingerprint-matching technology to catch the bad guy.

Yet what these procedurals neglect to acknowledge is that many of these popular forensic techniques are deeply unscientific and entirely political. Spatter pattern-matching, firearms analysis, hair analysis, fingerprint and bite mark analysis — they’re all mostly bullshit with little scientific merit. Despite this, forensics have helped contribute to the wrongful convictions of thousands of people: a storytelling aid, prosecutorial smoke and mirrors, a courtroom PR tool to lend scientific verisimilitude to what is very often just circumstantial, hunch-based police work.

On this episode, we break down how popular culture depictions of forensics helps mislead viewers — and by extension jurors — into thinking forensics are science that proves guilt rather than what they really are: slick marketing collateral to help prosecutors convict someone they already think is guilty for other, nonscientific reasons. 

We are joined by Aviva Shen, Senior Editor at Slate.

Episode 94: The Goofy Pseudoscience Copaganda of TV Forensics

After over 100 episodes, scores of News Briefs, and almost three years of content production, Citations Needed has finally done it: reduced itself to a listicle. On this News Brief, we examine the top ten worst COVID-19 takes to date (not including the celebrity 'Imagine' video). Proceed with caution.

News Brief: Top 10 Worst Covid Crisis Takes (So Far)

We discuss the work of Actor/Martial Artist Cynthia Rothrock and focus on RIGHTING WRONGS, CHINA O'BRIEN, and MANHATTAN CHASE.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to drop us a line at importantcinemaclubpodcast@gmail.com

In this week's Patreon episode, we discuss Jackie Chan's BATTLECREEK BRAWL and THE PROTECTOR. Become a Patreon subscriber for $5 a month and get an exclusive episode every week!

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African American literature studies scholar Marquis Bey explores anarchism's radical critique of both the state, and the ourselves within the state, and explains how Blackness anarchizes anarchism, demanding more of this world than is possible.

Marquis is author of the book "Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism" from AK Press. 

https://www.akpress.org/anarcho-blackness.html

We have to become unreal and impossible: Towards Black anarchism.

Historian Gerald Horne on his book "The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century" from Monthly Review.

https://monthlyreview.org/product/the-dawning-of-the-apocalypse/

1205: Slavery, race and capital in the sixteenth century / Gerald Horne

Writer Ben Ehrenreich on the value of life and time before the collapse, and his book "Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time" via Counterpoint Press, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen wants to sell you another improved fascism.

https://www.counterpointpress.com/dd-product/desert-notebooks/

1207: Time at the end of time / Ben Ehrenreich

In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen wants to sell you another improved fascism.

Read the transcript here: https://thisishell.com/announcements/559

Moment of Truth: The Time Has Come for Big Tent Fascism.

Writer Ashley Dawson on decarbonizing the global energy system, collectivizing renewables, and his book "People's Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons" from OR Books.

* Use the promocode THISISHELL15 and get 15% off the book at OR's site, plus a free download of Ashley's book "Extinction: A Radical History."

https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/peoples-power/

1210: Towards a global energy commons / Ashley Dawson

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As stalwart supporters of Keir Starmer since the creation of Adam & Eve 6000 years ago, it gives us no pleasure to have to do this, but our hand was forced into getting together with our friends Nikita (@jeremywhorebyn) and Aarjan (@aarjanistan) of the LeftOver podcast to call for the resignation of "Sir "Keir" in the strongest terms, as his troubled leadership hits its lowest ebb yet. The fabled twenty-point lead has not materialised, and so the time has come to ask "should Starmer go?" and to answer "yes", which we do here.

Moment of Truth: The Time Has Come for Big Tent Fascism.

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