{"podcast":{"title":"Conspiracy Cabal","slug":"conspiracy-cabal-7759106","podcast_index_feed_id":7759106,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/692e431c1fc8491a7b9a3769","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/conspiracy-cabal","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/692e431c1fc8491a7b9a3769/1780012564788-fbe66255-abc6-4b7b-97a1-b15d86551a5f.jpeg","author":"Southern Ocean Media","episode_count":38,"summary":"The sh*t that's in your group chat...just a fair bit more fact checked and a lot more explained. Big Pharma. The deep state. The crisis actors. Alien life. Spy agencies and cover ups. Whatever it is, award winning journo Richard Baker and Dr Nick Coatsworth are your guides on the search for the kernel of truth. Conspiracies are everywhere right now. But, we don’t peddle theories, we go to their point of origin and follow the breadcrumbs to sort the bullsh*t from the verified, while keeping an open mind to things that can’t be explained. Rich has spent years exposing the crooked and corrupt, and Nick has copped death threats from people who thought he was one of THEM. They know what real cover-ups look like, and they also know what happens when paranoia meets the algorithm. Sometimes the conspiracy is real. Sometimes it's designed to sell you on something. Often, it's both. Our mission is to entertain and inform. Rather than condemn and judge. Hear the Conspiracy Cabal every week, and contact the show at conspiracycabal@outlook.com Conspiracy Cabal is proudly supported by WholeLife . Use code CABAL10 for $10 off your first order of $50 or more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-09T06:20:27.742949+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conspiracy-cabal-7759106"},"episode":{"title":"12: COVID-19 | The Lab Leak Theory & Vaccine Mandates","slug":"12-covid-19-the-lab-leak-theory-vaccine-mandates","published_at":"2026-05-12T15:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conspiracy-cabal-7759106/12-covid-19-the-lab-leak-theory-vaccine-mandates","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conspiracy-cabal-7759106","url":"https://shows.acast.com/conspiracy-cabal/episodes/covid-19-the-lab-leak-theory-vaccine-mandates","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/692e431c1fc8491a7b9a3769/e/6a02ff2692e9663a6fe37b8f/media.mp3","summary":"The lab leak. The five-eyes suppression. The gain-of-function funding trail. The Beagle experiments. The suppressed treatments. The modellers whose predictions shaped policy but whose data no one could check. The social media companies that quietly moved the goalposts on what counted as misinformation - and who told them to. The thing is - some of this is now documented. The lab leak hypothesis, once treated as a dangerous fringe idea, is now the assessed position of multiple US intelligence agencies. Emails obtained through FOIA requests showed senior scientists privately voicing concerns they publicly dismissed. Gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was partly funded, indirectly, through bodies connected to the NIH - and whether that meets the technical definition of \"gain-of-function\" became, itself, a political question. So where does the documented end - and the mythology begin? In this episode, Richard Baker and Dr. Nick Coatsworth go back to the beginning - not to relitigate the pandemic, but to ask what we actually know now that we didn't then, and what the episode tells us about science, power, and what happens when the two collide under pressure. The lab leak - what the intelligence assessments actually say, what they don't, and why \"we don't know\" is a more honest answer than either side wants to give The Fauci emails, the beagle experiments, and the gain-of-function funding trail - what the documents show and what's still being disputed The suppressed treatments question - hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, and how a genuine scientific debate became a culture war The Great Barrington Declaration - who signed it, who attacked it, and whether the pushback was about the science or the politics The social media censorship question - what pla…","meta_description":"The lab leak. The five-eyes suppression. The gain-of-function funding trail. The Beagle experiments. The suppressed treatments. The modellers whose predic…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2237,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/conspiracy-cabal-7759106/episodes/12-covid-19-the-lab-leak-theory-vaccine-mandates/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conspiracy-cabal-7759106/12-covid-19-the-lab-leak-theory-vaccine-mandates.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}