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The Tell on Cults Quacks and PersuasionThe Psychology of Believing Conspiracies with Ricky GreenIs there a personality type that is more drawn to believing in conspiracy theories? Why?The Tell with Christine Axsmith explores these questions, and how exactly the acceptance of one conspiracy theory leads to believing in others.The Tell with Christine Axsmith will make you taller, but only if you subscribe! Get full access to The Tell with Christine Axsmith at christineaxsmith.substack.com/subscribe
2023-02-1049 min
The Tell on Cults Quacks and PersuasionConversation Starters for the Socially AwkwardNever a Dull Conversation* Hitler was a vegetarian. Maybe not a moral one.* You know Catherine the Great didn’t really have sex with horses, right?* I never really believed that whole “dinosaurs are extinct” thing.* If men are from Mars and women are from Venus - who’s on Uranus?Just getting used to the end of Covid isolation. Join me! Get full access to The Tell with Christine Axsmith at christineaxsmith.substack.com/subscribe
2023-01-2105 min
The Tell on Cults Quacks and PersuasionCults vs. GangsListen now! An informative conversation with gang expert Lisa Taylor Austin about coercive control and gangs, and how its use differs from cults.Another conversation with The Tell with Christine Axsmith. Subscribe now to get more! Get full access to The Tell with Christine Axsmith at christineaxsmith.substack.com/subscribe
2023-01-1840 min
The Tell on Cults Quacks and PersuasionChit Chat with Q-Dropped Creator About QAnon CasualtiesCourtney Heard from the Q-Dropped podcast joins us today to talk about her experiences on QAnon’s impact on family relationships.Subscribe and get a free cult checklist. The Tell with Christine Axsmith has a private chat for members only. Get full access to The Tell with Christine Axsmith at christineaxsmith.substack.com/subscribe
2023-01-0759 min
The Tell on Cults Quacks and PersuasionConvo with Dylan Selterman on Psychology of Social Media and ExtremismGreat interaction with Dylan Selterman, author of the Resistance Hypothesis blog on Psych Today. I learned a lot - mostly because he’s a professor at Johns Hopkins. What was most interesting is that he doesn’t think that social media radicalizes people, and that online activity cannot pull people into cults.Check it out!Thanks for reading The Tell with Christine Axsmith! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Get full access to The Tell with Christine Axsmith at christineaxsmith.substack.com/subscribe
2022-10-1446 min
The Tell on Cults Quacks and PersuasionInterview with Chris Shelton of Sensibly SpeakingToday we feature a conversation with Chris Shelton of the Sensibly Speaking podcast. As someone who left Scientology, Chris talks about what drew him deeper into that group and the experiences that led him out of it. Thanks for reading The Tell with Christine Axsmith! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Get full access to The Tell with Christine Axsmith at christineaxsmith.substack.com/subscribe
2022-09-1438 min
The Tell on Cults Quacks and PersuasionManti Te'o - It Could Happen To youWe can sit so comfortably, thinking we would never fall for one of these scams. But intelligence is not the deciding factor - it is vulnerability.Manti Te’o was an established public figure when it was revealed that his dead girlfriend was actually alive. This is important because it was a much-reported sports story that year, both that his girlfriend had died and later, that she didn’t die. In fact, it was someone pretending to be a woman online and he had never met her.The term “catfishing” came into popular consciousness all at once...
2022-09-0307 min
The Tell on Cults Quacks and PersuasionAlex Jones War - a reviewThere’s been lots of news lately about Alex Jones due to the Sandy Hook defamation trial. Today, we look at the documentary together to evaluate it and compare it to other sources.This documentary on Alex Jones by film maker Alex Lee Moyer is available for purchase here. Get full access to The Tell with Christine Axsmith at christineaxsmith.substack.com/subscribe
2022-08-3036 min
The Tell on Cults Quacks and PersuasionAlex's War - Documentary on Alex JonesThere’s been lots of news lately about Alex Jones due to the Sandy Hook defamation trial. This documentary on Alex Jones by film maker Alex Lee Moyer is available for purchase here. Get full access to The Tell with Christine Axsmith at christineaxsmith.substack.com/subscribe
2022-08-0636 min
The Tell on Cults Quacks and PersuasionThe Delusion of Materialism Get full access to The Tell with Christine Axsmith at christineaxsmith.substack.com/subscribe
2022-08-0120 min
The Tell on Cults Quacks and PersuasionSentience and AIThe idea that a data-vacuuming computer program is now sentient would mean that man can create life, like G-d. It’s not like I’d worry about a new replacement theory, one with Google algorithms replacing people. In fact, I’d almost welcome it, all things considered.It’s preposterous, of course. And like many smart people before him, this Google engineer is just being silly. Did I tell you my little German village story? In my Mother’s German village of Bad Kissingen, on December 31st, 1899, an entire church congregation gave away everything they owned and went to th...
2022-07-1522 min