This post includes links to great podcasts. I encourage you to follow the links to the podcasts. They are much more informative than anything I have to say about them. ------------------- As COVID deaths in the US exceed 700,000, I continue my search for the source of widespread stupidity. To state the obvious, stupidity sells. I encountered  this  CBC podcast on the subject of "Conspirituality" - lovely term embracing the dog's breakfast of ideas promoted for commercial reasons that treat "mainstream" health measures (such as vaccines) as a kind of conspiracy against the individual who, instead, should be buying magic crystals, retaining semen or following some arcane practice rather than submitting to the awkward fact that good intentions and independent thinking will not save you from having a more or less run of the mill body and life. Another lovely term from this podcast is "privatized religion". This refers to the fact that anybody with a measur