What is "Science in Transition" feat Liv Agar & Spencer Barrows (E331)

Is there actually a liberal equivalent to QAnon? Travis doesn’t think so. But there are anonymous entities and online communities that bear some of the noxious elements of QAnon, despite being liberal. In this episode we explore two of them. First, we take a look at the “Alt National Park” social media accounts. These are anonymous “resistance” accounts that got started during Trump’s first term, but took a strange turn when they moved to Bluesky. And then we’re going to explore the 4 AM Club, a loose community of spiritual women on Tik Tok who believe that they were awakened to something significant the day after the 2024 presidential election. Will fake park rangers and online channelers save us from the horrors of the Trump administration? You already know the answer, but listen to the episode to hear what we have to say about it. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa REFERENCES A Conversation With the Rogue National Park Service Twitter Account https://www.vice.com/en/article/alternate-national-parks-service-explains-why-its-twitter-will-remain-anonymous/ Rogue National Park Service Twitter account says it’s no longer run by government employees…but maybe it never was https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/27/rogue-national-park-service-twitter-account-says-its-no-longer-run-by-government-employees-but-maybe-it-never-was/ The "Alt National Park Service" Sounds an Awful Lot Like QAnon https://jjoycelynch.substack.com/p/the-alt-national-parks-service-sounds AltWatcher on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/altwatcher.bsky.social Meet the 4 a.m. club, TikTok’s mystical election night movement https://www.fastcompany.com/91356982/meet-the-4-am-club-tiktoks-mystical-election-night-movement

This is the very first episode of the six-part podcast series network Science In Transition by Liv Agar and Spencer Barrows, from our new podcast series network Cursed Media.  Science in Transition is an investigation into the intellectual origins of the contemporary right wing backlash against transgender acceptance. Through six deeply-researched episodes, hosts Liv Agar and Spencer Barrows unearth a bizarre coalition of well-meaning clinicians, aristocratic sexologists, militant feminists, right-wing culture warriors, headline-chasing journalists, and conservative politicians. Listen to the first two episodes of Science In Transition and the rest of the six episodes as they are released weekly by subscribing through this link. www.cursedmedia.net/ Subscribers to Cursed Media get access to three new podcast series per year, plus every episode of QAA’s existing mini-series (properly organized!) //// Science In Transition Episode 1: Birth of the Clinic As various fields in the medical sciences advance during the interwar period, doctors confront a problem: the treatment of adults who desire to change their sex. While many clinicians propose psychotherapy, a few dotted across the Western world have a different idea: use newly synthesized hormones and surgical procedures to treat them. Liv and Spencer dig into the early decades of the Western gender clinic, its treatment of gender-variant and intersex children, and the crusaders who sought to morally mandate the transsexual out of existence. A full list of sources for the entire series will be available soon; for further reading, please consult: Florence Ashley, ““Richard Green wasn’t an ally to trans communities: a controversial legacy” ⁠https://medium.com/@florence.ashley/richard-green-wasnt-an-ally-to-trans-communities-a-controversial-legacy-e6d9a485f66e⁠  Jules Gill-Peterson, Histories of the Transgender Child Julia Serano, Whipping Girl Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History Of Transsexuality In The United States  Karl Bryant, “Making Gender Identity Disorder of Childhood: Historical Lessons for  Contemporary Debates” Lisa Downing, Iain Morland, and Nikki Sullivan, Fuckology: Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts Melanie Fritz and Nat Mulkey, “The rise and fall of gender identity clinics in the 1960s and 1970s” ⁠https://archive.is/7cNQr⁠  Samantha Riedel, “Gen(d)erations: How Sandy Stone “Struck Back” Against Transmisogyny” ⁠https://www.them.us/story/genderations-sandy-stone⁠  Stacey D. Jackson-Roberts, “Pushed to the edge: the treatment of transsexuals through time: a behavioral discourse analysis of the diagnostic and treatment protocols for transsexuals and the implications for contemporary social work practice” ⁠https://scholarworks.smith.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2037&context=theses⁠

The QAA crew is excited to announce the launch of a new podcast series network: Cursed Media. We hope you’ll also be excited for this expansion of our editorial line and support it by subscribing! The very first Cursed Media podcast series is Science in Transition, an investigation into the intellectual origins of the contemporary right wing backlash against transgender acceptance. Through six deeply-researched episodes, hosts Liv Agar and Spencer Barrows unearth a bizarre coalition of well-meaning clinicians, aristocratic sexologists, militant feminists, right-wing culture warriors, headline-chasing journalists, and conservative politicians. On this episode of QAA we are joined by Liv and Spencer to chat about what they found by digging through FOIA documents, interviewing experts, and diving into dense medical journals. Get access to Science in Transition plus all other Cursed Media content by following this link: https://www.cursedmedia.net/ Subscribers to Cursed Media get access to three new podcast series per year, plus every episode of QAA’s existing mini-series (properly organized!) Manclan by Julian Feeld and Annie Kelly, Trickle Down by Travis View The Spectral Voyager by Jake Rockatansky and Brad Abrahams Perverts by Julian Feeld and Liv Agar Cursed Media logo by https://dayoff.ltd

Who said the right can’t sling poetry to the masses? Inspired by the awesome Dimes Square scene and the incredible thinker Curtis Yarvin we set out to establish the lyrical domination of our liberal enemies with Andrew, Branson and Charles from the Episode 1 Podcast. For the third time. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: http://www.patreon.com/qaa E1 Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/e1podcast / https://x.com/e1podcast E1 Hosts: https://x.com/necrobranson / https://x.com/intellegint / https://x.com/charlesraustin E1 X QAA - Red Pill Redemption (rap track that plays at the end): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdNT74Xo7c&list=RD2tdNT74Xo7c&start_radio=1 Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

Black Panthers, Third World revolutionary movements, CIA surveillance and plane hijackings. Elaine Mokhtefi is a century of history in a person. We speak to her about her experiences as an activist ranging back to protesting segregation in 1944. Her book Algiers: Third World Capital is an enthralling testament to a life of involvement in the tangible fight for freedom and justice in colonized and exploited countries. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: https://patreon.com/qaa Buy Elaine Mokhtefi’s book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/760-algiers-third-world-capital Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has lost his defamation lawsuit and somehow has also declared total victory. The gang dives deeper into the mind of this fascinating man, only to discover that his brains are made entirely of patented ‘fill’. Jake has read Mike’s biography and will be performing multiple passages. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

A Mom’s For Liberty ‘Legislator of the Year” winner arrested for sexually abusing children and distributing CSAM. A horrifying politically motivated assassination. Julian dives into the disturbing details in charges filed against State Representative RJ May III and Travis debunks right wing claims that shooter Vance Luther Boelter is a Democrat. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: https://patreon.com/qaa Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

With the release of Google’s latest AI video model, there’s yet another reason to fear deeply for the future of humanity. From kangaroo support animals to Stormtrooper vlogs, it’s clear that AI generated video is truly ready for primetime. Julian claims we have been this way for a while now, without AI. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

Hundreds of people have been arrested in Los Angeles after days of protests, which are in response to aggressive immigration raids ordered by President Trump. When people took to social media to make sense of the events, they were confronted with fake, AI-generated videos of the protests and real photos that were labelled as out-of-context by AI. Thus breaking new ground in worthless, deceitful slop. Plus, we speak to Anna Merlan at Mother Jones about her recent reporting on the RFK Jr.-connected “MAHA Institute.” That organization’s head, Leland Lehrman, has pushed extremist ideas for decades, including endorsing the conspiracist fraudulent text "Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” RFK Jr. himself is evidently embracing a genuinely anti-vax agenda in his role as Health Secretary by firing and replacing the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP). We've seen the future. And the future is an AI chatbot telling you to treat your latest typhus infection with apple cider vinegar. We've seen the future. And the future is an AI chatbot telling you to treat your latest typhus infection with apple cider vinegar. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: https://patreon.com/qaa /// Anna Merlan on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/annamerlan.bsky.social The Head of a New RFK-Backing Group Promoted 9/11 Conspiracy Theories and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/leland-lehrman-make-america-healthy-again-institute-antisemitism-september-11/ Flaming Hydra https://flaminghydra.com/ // Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast. REFERENCES Bricks from Malaysia and New Jersey misrepresented amid LA unrest https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.49XW2T2 FACT FOCUS: A Craigslist ad is not proof of paid protesters in LA. It was posted as a prank https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-los-angeles-paid-protesters-prank-48792aa47dcc2d8eeb9547d79d530037 Fake videos and conspiracies fuel falsehoods about Los Angeles protests https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fake-videos-conspiracies-falsehoods-los-angeles-protests/ Los Angeles protests: How AI and chatbots are feeding fake news https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20250610-meet-bob-the-ai-generated-national-guard-soldier-sparking-misinformation AI Chatbots Are Making LA Protest Disinformation Worse https://www.wired.com/story/grok-chatgpt-ai-los-angeles-protest-disinformation/

This episode doesn’t just include Jake’s takes. It also includes Travis’ views and Julian’s feels. The boys unpack the fallout from the Trump/Elon rift, mystery urine, Ghostbusters acapella, AI-powered accounts on Twitter that argue with each other, the Weezer-related risks of killing baby Hitler, Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning, and a chatbot that recommends an addict to try a little meth. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.