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Just the Facts with Gerald PosnerThe Arrogance of Mark ZuckerbergMeta has kept secret a disturbing flaw in its systems by which cybercriminals exploit Instagram accounts for illegal activities, including running up charges on stolen credit cards and selling nonexistent products. The criminals exploit a weakness in Meta security by creating and linking fraudulent Instagram accounts to randomly selected legitimate Facebook profiles. This enables the hackers to mostly bypass Meta’s commerce eligibility criteria, the supposed safeguard before verifying an account for sales activities. The hackers then abuse their new accounts until Meta detects the fraud and shuts them down. However, by that time, the legitimate Facebook pr...2024-11-0907 min
Just the Facts with Gerald PosnerPseudonyms for SafetyEverybody gives lip service to free speech. Until it runs counter to what they believe. It is not easy nowadays to have a reasonable discussion about topics such as gender ideology or the effect of the T on LGB without some zealots making life miserable for those with whom they disagree. Debate often quickly devolves into a verbal food fight. No wonder so many of the smartest people I know stay away from these topics as if they are social third rails. That is especially true of my progressive friends. They have discovered that it is not...2024-07-0306 min
UnMuted: the TransMuted PodcastThe One Where Gerald Posner, a Major-League Publishing MVP, Pitches an Inning in the Little League Game That Is UnMuted.Here’s the text of my intro:I’ve been thinking about queer theory, which is basically a repudiation of reality and a rejection of accepted social norms. Every time I’ve ever had to think about queer theory, it’s been in response to something ugly and downright crazy-making: like watching Democrats fight to eradicate competitive sports for women;or hearing anyone argue for rapists in women’s prisons;knowing doctors are performing “Frankenstein” experiments on healthy bodies because patients are asking for them, while teachers and counselors are spreading unbelievably d...2024-06-081h 01
Designed To Heal Podcast: Your Body's Amazing Healing PowerThe Realities Behind Gender Reassignment Surgeries And Puberty Blockers (ft. Gerald Posner)In this episode Dr. Ben welcomes back popular guest Gerald Posner, author of thirteen acclaimed books. The New York Times said his latest book (2020), PHARMA, was “a withering and encyclopedic indictment of a drug industry that often seems to prioritize profits over patients…[it] reads like a pharmaceutical version of cops and robbers." Posner was one of the youngest attorneys (23) ever hired by Cravath, Swaine & Moore. A Political Science major, he was a Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, where he was also a national debating champion. His wife, author, Tris...2024-05-2053 min
“The PLOTH Thickens!” From food, history, and much much more!“The PLOTH Thickens!” The Posner’s EP6 S2 from Auschwitz to PHARMA!“The PLOTH Thickens!” The Posner’s EP6 S2 from Auschwitz to PHARMA! Gerald and Trisha Posner takes us from Anti Semitism, JFK, history, Speakers Corner to Cancel Culture we cover it all! http://www.posner.com http://www.trishaposner.com Find their books PHARMA and The Pharmacist of Auschwitz(The Untold Story) #amazon #barnesandnobel #booksellers #race #antisemitism #pharma #books #justthefacts https://www.justthefacts.media2024-02-0959 min
Just the Facts with Gerald PosnerA Brief End of Year Thanks from Just the FactsThank you to the 5000 loyal subscribers to Just the Facts. This Substack is somewhat unorthodox. It does not adhere to the typical model of focusing on a single subject. Some of you discovered my work from articles about OxyContin or Fentanyl, only to find the next piece discussing the dangers of puberty blockers for minors or the risks posed to free expression by increasing censorship. Just when you think you spot a theme, I am sure to deliver something unexpected; how Sweden became a gangland paradise, the latest news from those still-sealed JFK assassination files, or the...2023-12-2902 min
The Michael Shermer ShowJFK 60th Anniversary of the AssassinationA conversation with Warren Commission Assistant Counsel Burt W. Griffin, Case Closed author and Lee Harvey Oswald scholar Gerald Posner, and JFK conspiracy theory debunker Michel Gagné. Shermer, Griffin, Posner, and Gagné discuss: the nostalgic myth of “Camelot” • Lee Harvey Oswald and why he killed Kennedy • Cuba, Castro, the Bay of Pigs debacle • the CIA and why it is rational to be skeptical of their activities • the “magic bullet,” pristine or predictably damaged? • James Hosty and the FBI’s files on Oswald before he killed JFK • CIA and FBI coverups • General Edwin Walker • Jack Ruby • Bernard Weissman, • common themes in conspiracy theo...2023-11-221h 55
The Jew Function PodcastThe Jew Function Live Circle Nov 5th 2023What would it take for Jews to unite? We connect with Trisha and Gerald Posner, David Bernstein, David Lange, and Rolene Marks for this live podcast. #israel #humanity #antisemitism
This talk was great. we even had a rocket alert in Israel in the middle of our conversation!2023-11-101h 07
The Jew Function PodcastTJF Talks Episode 53 | Save your marriage save the JewsThis couple rocks everything they do and they do much of it together! They write non-fiction history books, do investigative reporting, they contribute to NBC, the History Channel, CNN, FOX News, CBS, and MSNBC, they've created antisemitismwatch.org, and they somehow managed to keep a successful marriage for decades! She's born in London to a Jewish family. He was born in the U.S. to a Jewish dad and a Catholic mother. Please give it up to Gerald and Trisha Posner. Rock on!
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Just the Facts with Gerald PosnerA Quick ThanksJust the Facts reached 3,000 subscribers today. I am grateful to all of you. Some have been with me since the start and others subscribed only today. The growth has been slow and steady.One of the first bits of advice another writer offered when I set up my Substack was to stick to a single topic. “Carve out a niche on one subject and you will get a following fast,” he assured me. Those of you who have stuck around for a while know I never did that. On Just the Fact...2023-08-0302 minThe Michael Shermer Show339. Gerald and Patricia Posner on EvilShermer and the Posners discuss: the nature and banality of evil • Are we all potential Nazis? • Mengele, Eichmann, Himmler, Hitler • The Pharmacist of Auschwitz • the Holocaust • the Stanford Prison Experiment • Milgram’s shock experiments on obedience to authority • Abu Ghraib and other war crimes • restorative justice • the opioid crisis • the Vatican and the future of Catholicism. Gerald Posner is an award-winning journalist who has written twelve books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK. His 2015 book, God’s Bankers, a two-hundred-year history of the finances of the Vatican, was an acclaimed New York Ti...2023-04-111h 52
Just the Facts with Gerald PosnerThe Assault on Freedom of SpeechNote: This is the first in an occasional series of short essays about the perils of what I call one think, a pernicious type of censorship in which voices and opinions that veer outside the guard rails of what is deemed “acceptable speech” are themselves banned, canceled, humiliated in the public square, and often branded as some form of bigotry.I made my first trip to London in 1981 to visit the family of my soon-to-be wife, author Patricia Posner. One day, while walking in Hyde Park, near Marble Arch and Oxford Street, I came across a fe...2023-02-0415 min
History Author ShowMeriel Schindler – The Lost Café Schindler: One Family, Two Wars, and the Search for Truth April 4, 2022 - What would you do if your estranged father died, leaving behind piles of Nazi-era documents related to the fate of your family's café in the world wars? In this episode, our time machine travels back to the inter-war years, to meet a Jewish family rocked by the turmoil of Austria-Hungary and them Germany coming out on the losing side.Our guide on this journey is Meriel Schindler who brings us The Lost Café Schindler: One Family, Two Wars, and the Search for Truth. After her father Kurt's death, Meriel was left to con...2022-04-0455 min
History Author ShowMeriel Schindler – The Lost Café Schindler: One Family, Two Wars, and the Search for TruthApril 4, 2022 - What would you do if your estranged father died, leaving behind piles of Nazi-era documents related to the fate of your family's café in the world wars? In this episode, our time machine travels back to the inter-war years, to meet a Jewish family rocked by the turmoil of Austria-Hungary and them Germany coming out on the losing side.
Our guide on this journey is Meriel Schindler who brings us The Lost Café Schindler: One Family, Two Wars, and the Search for Truth. After her father Kurt's death, Meriel was left to confront their broken relationship, and untangle th...2022-04-0455 minHistory Author ShowGerald Posner – Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFKThe New York Sun - Upcoming Dump of JFK Documents Winds Up the Conspiracy Theorists - Dean Karayanis November 15, 2021 - On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Was it a lone gunman or something more sinister? In this episode, we debunk the conspiracy theories with renowned investigative journalist and attorney Gerald Posner, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist, Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK. Gerald previously appeared on the History Author Show to discuss his 2015 book, God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican, and his eerily prescient bo...2021-11-151h 03History Author ShowGerald Posner – Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFKThe New York Sun - Upcoming Dump of JFK Documents Winds Up the Conspiracy Theorists - Dean Karayanis
November 15, 2021 - On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Was it a lone gunman or something more sinister? In this episode, we debunk the conspiracy theories with renowned investigative journalist and attorney Gerald Posner, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist, Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK.
Gerald previously appeared on the History Author Show to discuss his 2015 book, God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican, and his eerily prescient bo...2021-11-151h 03
High Truths on Drugs and AddictionEpisode #36 High Truths with Gerald Posner on PharmaWas I duped by Big Pharma? Early in my career I was told “You and your colleagues are undertreating pain.” When I served as Vice Chair of on the California Medical Association Council on Legislation, we passed laws that mandated pain education for doctors and eliminated specialized prescription pads for potent opioids. But then it became ridiculous. In 2013, I counted 20% of all my emergency patients were there to get opioids. I was one of the first physicians to resist this trend, and when I did, I was accused of lacking compassion. I realized that well intentioned physicians simply did not fa...2021-08-3057 min
Utility + FunctionE 15. Gerald Posner - Investigating For TruthThe author of 13 acclaimed books, including New York Times nonfiction bestsellers Case Closed, Why America Slept and God’s Bankers. Posner was a finalist for the Pulitzer in History. “A merciless pit bull of an investigator” concluded the Chicago Tribune. The New York Times said his latest book (2020), PHARMA, was “a withering and encyclopedic indictment of a drug industry that often seems to prioritize profits over patients…[it] reads like a pharmaceutical version of cops and robbers."
Posner was one of the youngest attorneys (23) ever hired by Cravath, Swaine & Moore. A Political Science major, he was a Phi...2021-06-181h 47The Michael Shermer Show123. Gerald Posner — Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of AmericaPharmaceutical breakthroughs such as antibiotics and vaccines rank among some of the greatest advancements in human history. Yet exorbitant prices for life-saving drugs, safety recalls affecting tens of millions of Americans, and soaring rates of addiction and overdose on prescription opioids have caused many to lose faith in drug companies. Now, Americans are demanding a national reckoning with a monolithic industry. Pharma introduces brilliant scientists, incorruptible government regulators, and brave whistleblowers facing off against company executives often blinded by greed. A business that profits from treating ills can create far deadlier problems than it cures. Addictive products are part...2020-07-071h 37
The Addiction Podcast - Point of No ReturnTrisha Posner - Freedom Fighter and SurvivorBy all rights, Trisha could have turned to drugs or alcohol. She grew up in a time when it was not pleasant to be Jewish. She survived bullying and religious discrimination. So at a young age, she got tough. When her husband - Gerald Posner - was researching his book on Josef Mengele (The Angel of Death in the Holocaust), she learned of the part that a pharmacist played in the horrors of the Holocaust. Her book - The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is a national bestseller.2020-06-1954 min
The Addiction Podcast-Point of No ReturnTrisha Posner - Freedom Fighter and SurvivorBy all rights, Trisha could have turned to drugs or alcohol. She grew up in a time when it was not pleasant to be Jewish. She survived bullying and religious discrimination. So at a young age, she got tough. When her husband - Gerald Posner - was researching his book on Josef Mengele (The Angel of Death in the Holocaust), she learned of the part that a pharmacist played in the horrors of the Holocaust. Her book - The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is a national bestseller.2020-06-1954 minHistory Author ShowGerald Posner – Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of AmericaJune 15, 2020 - Investigative journalist and attorney Gerald Posner shares the highpoints of the pharmaceutical industry's transformational successes, as well the moments they'd prefer to keep buried. We go along for the ride in his latest book, Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America. It's a page-turning journey to meet the scientists whose successes have improved the lives of every human being on earth, and the marketers who gave us infamous scourges like Thalidomide and the opioid crisis.
Yes, for every polio vaccine, there are those who lose sight of their noble mission to first do no harm, in the f...2020-06-151h 12History Author ShowGerald Posner – Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of AmericaJune 15, 2020 - Investigative journalist and attorney Gerald Posner shares the highpoints of the pharmaceutical industry's transformational successes, as well the moments they'd prefer to keep buried. We go along for the ride in his latest book, Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America. It's a page-turning journey to meet the scientists whose successes have improved the lives of every human being on earth, and the marketers who gave us infamous scourges like Thalidomide and the opioid crisis. Yes, for every polio vaccine, there are those who lose sight of their noble mission to first do no harm, in the f...2020-06-151h 12
Wiki Politiki with Steve BhaermanGerald Posner - Strung Out On DrugsGerald Posner – Strung Out On DrugsGreed, Lies and the Poisoning of AmericaAired Tuesday, March 31, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with investigative journalist Gerald Posner, author of “Pharma: Greed, Lies and the Poisoning of America”“The way the pharmaceutical industry has profited off our illnesses is enough to make you sick.” — Swami BeyondanandaWith the Coronavirus front and center in the news, and with talk of how quickly a vaccine can be developed and by whom, national and international attention is being focused on the pharmaceutical industry. So who better t...2020-04-0156 min
The Malliard Report: Where the Paranormal Meets Pennsylvania Grit.Gerald Posner12192017 This week on The Malliard Report Jim welcomes a guest that is as diverse as he is. Not afraid to shy away from any of the topics, Gerald Posner dives right in to very deep and controversial subjects and presents views that go against the norm. From the mysteries surrounding the Vatican, the always perplexing JFK assassination (his view may shock you), Josef Mengele, and even Martin Luther King Jr. Gerald digs in and brings his legal background to shed new light on these subjects.Posner has an incredibly impressive background and this plays into his ability...2017-12-2000 min