By Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky
Published November 05, 2021 8:34pm
Directed energy attacks? Sonic beams? Psychogenic illness? We explore the set of symptoms that have become a national security & media obsession generating a tenuous theory about a weapon wielded by a foreign power — Russian, Cuban, or possibly Chinese. We take a look at the media's role and the scientific community's reaction with guest Natalie Shure, a columnist for the New Republic who’s also written for The Nation, Jacobin, The Prospect and Buzzfeed. She’s been covering the phenomenon consistently since it first manifested a few years ago. This episode also contains coverage of the Dallas event at which JFK, JFK Jr...