Spotify was never going to drop Joe Rogan (audio style)

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Joe Rogan pledges to try harder after Neil Young Spotify row
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60192957

"My pledge to you is that I will do my best to try to balance out these more controversial viewpoints with other people's perspectives, so we can maybe find a better point of view," he said, adding he had "no hard feelings" towards Young or Mitchell.

"I'm not mad at Neil Young, I'm a huge Neil Young fan," he said, noting his admiration for Mitchell's music as well.

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The irony of Neil Young protesting disinformation: He is one of pop culture's biggest science deniers
https://www.science20.com/content/the_ir...ce_deniers

INTRO: Prior to 2021, the demographic that overwhelmingly included vaccine deniers was Neil Young's political tribe. Find a Whole Foods, and you found deniers of vaccines and medicine and nuclear power. They were all corporate conspiracies.

So there is a certain irony that Neil Young pulled his music from Spotify because they didn't get rid of contrarian pundit Joe Rogan when critics of COVID-19 vaccines use the same language and "precautionary principle" veneer against science Young and his ilk used until this year.

Embracing the science he hated until a year ago means that like a whole lot of partisan people, he only pretends to accept it because the issue is political. Writing in The Daily Beast, Louis Anslow reminds the public that just a few years ago Young released a whole album devoted to undermining the same biotechnology that is saving the world in 2022. He even named it "The Monsanto Years" and it was bought by people who think Science Is A Vast Corporate Conspiracy[1] and still do - unless they can dunk on Republicans about being anti-science... (MORE - details) ..... VIDEO: https://youtu.be/m8o1DC_5hn4

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[1] Top Ten Corporate Conspiracies by a believer in the Illuminati:
https://www.illuminatirex.com/corporate-conspiracies/

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Conspirituality is finally getting called out for what it is - anti-science cranks & alternative medicine hucksters
https://www.science20.com/hank_campbell/..._hucksters

EXCERPTS: Last year, when CNN journalist Chris Cuomo was recovering from COVID-19, he endorsed all sorts of homeopathy and alternatives to medicine. It's no surprise, he is married to an influencer who just happens to sell those placebos to other wealthy, white elites. He's not alone. A surprising number of celebrities have spouses that promote nonsense.

For decades, the woo market has been mostly wealthy, white Baby Boomers who believe that science, from biotech to medicine, is a vast corporate conspiracy. Their alternative-medicine-practitioner-in chief, President Bill Clinton, not only signed a bad law exempting supplements and potions from real FDA oversight, his re-branded National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine was able to siphon off hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money that could have gone to real science and health research.

New Age beliefs that medicine is unnecessary or, worse, harmful, became so prevalent during the Obama years it even got its own name - conspirituality. They believe that Ancient Wisdom holds all the answers and some mysterious force can be harnessed, kind of like The Force in "Star Wars" before George Lucas flipped it from being a universal energy to those blessed with particular genes. All that is holding it back is corporations lobbying government to suppress herbs and crystals ... because Big Pharma can't control those.

Even "Rolling Stone", arguably the official magazine of aging Baby Boomers, is on Team Science these days. They call out Kimberly Van Der Beek... [...] California, the US home of the anti-vaccine movement ... And every other progressive anti-science fad of the last 10 years...

[...] She claimed, while COVID-19 vaccines were in development, that she had a family history of medical issues with vaccines when she was promoting another conspirituality advocate that sold nonsense like colloidal silver... (MORE - missing details)

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Good people do bad things.
Bad people do good things.
Clever people do stupid things.
Stupid people do clever things.
Most people just do 'things'
I'm fairly sure "I smell hypocrisy! <*pointy finger*>" is a quote from some horror film or other (Whitchfinder General?). I have to admit I can't detect what others call 'the stench', 'the stink' of hypocrisy, possibly as a result of smoking from an early age. I've stopped smoking (demon exorcised), didn't see that coming.

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Good people do bad things.
Bad people do good things.
Clever people do stupid things.
Stupid people do clever things.
Most people just do 'things'
I'm fairly sure "I smell hypocrisy! <*pointy finger*>" is a quote from some horror film or other (Whitchfinder General?). I have to admit I can't detect what others call 'the stench', 'the stink' of hypocrisy, possibly as a result of smoking from an early age. I've stopped smoking (demon exorcised), didn't see that coming.

Hmm... Never considered how the tobacco industry might have its own built-in Obscuration Field for shielding its consumer base from its own Rob Reiner disparaged and highlighted misdeeds slash contrariness.[1]

Still, I wouldn't mourn a deficiency of that particular post-fifth sense, C2. Probably requires growing up around a preachy religious environment, or celebrity soapbox mall, or "catcher in the rye" bottleneck of phoniness to really develop a nose for it. Whereas innocents simply stroll through its raucous din unperturbed. 

Dalai Lama: I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

Anton Chekhov: Ordinary hypocrites pretend to be doves; political and literary hypocrites pretend to be eagles. But don’t be disconcerted by their aquiline appearance. They are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

C.H. Spurgeon: It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time. 

Michael Shellenberger: Hypocrisy is the ultimate power move. It is a way of demonstrating that one plays by a different set of rules from the ones adhered to by common people.

Aldous Huxley: If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay – in solid cash – the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

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https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/VvpK998H6Kk