Former guest Mark Crispin Miller "used to study conspiracy theories. Now he pushes them."

Extreme disbelief — a skepticism so radical it dismisses nearly every official narrative as propaganda — can make for strange bedfellows. Since 9/11 (the official explanation for which he derides as “preposterous on its face”), Miller’s lefty skepticism about the lapdog corporate media and the machinations of the power elite, as the sociologist C. Wright Mills called it, has become increasingly indistinguishable from the right’s loss of faith in liberal democracy and its invincible contempt for the “fake news” media and experts of any sort.

Great article. As expected, a lot of mentions of Miller's loopier beliefs (covid editing DNA lol), but you can also tell a lot about the readership by inferring the reactions paragraphs like this are supposed to evoke. A good leftist acknowledges the insidious effect of corporate media monopolies and can maybe even namecheck Manufacturing Consent, but has a rock-solid faith in liberal democracy, respects journalists, and always Trusts The Science.

I'm pretty sure even the mention of Red Scare was supposed to be a dog whistle: this man is a contrarian!

one of the best episodes with him imo, they should get more of these weirdos on the pod to disseminate their nutbag theories

i understand his plight but he's really not helping his case .the more he talks the more he seems like a crank. less is more

I was sympathetic to him for most of his appearance on the pod, until I realized that I have never heard of someone who was falsely accused of being a Sandy Hook denier. And somehow I didn’t think this guy would be the first....

"When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back", many such cases!

glow up