Cognitive Dissonance
Atheist and Skeptical News
4.8from 4,703 ratings
- 1,018
- Episodes
- 158
- Transcribed
- 4,703
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2011
- First episode
- 757K
- YouTube views
About Cognitive Dissonance
Every episode we blast anyone who gets in our way. We bring critical thinking, skepticism, and irreverence to any topic that makes the news, makes it big, or makes us mad. It's skeptical, it's political and there is no welcome mat.
- Publisher
- Atheist and Skeptical News
- Category
- comedy
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 13 Apr 2011
- Latest episode
- 21 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
158 of 1,018 episodes have a transcript.
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Episode 940: Fact Check with Seth Andrews
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Episode 939: Bravely Hiding in a Catering Truck
7 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Episode 940: Fact Check with Seth Andrews
Published 21 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It hits our amygdala and we fire up and we click and like and share and engage and we go there. And before you know it, they have monetized it. our genuine sense of justice and our grief about injustice. But we are being manipulated. And when I think about that, I just get angry. I think my sense of justice and my grief about injustice is very precious to me because it speaks to my values. It speaks to the cruelty I want to see defeated and the grift I want defeated and all of these. Someone brought to my attention the term cacistocracy, government by the worst people. I'd never heard the term until a few months ago. […]
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- YouTube views
- 756,752
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 4,031 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 672 ratings
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- 89
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 76
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