Part One: The Grifters Behind The Fake Autism 'Cure' Industry
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Hi, everybody. It's James here. If you didn't listen to what could happen here, you might not recognize me. My name is James Stout, and I am the guy who pops onto this feed every few months to tell you something very sad and then ask for your money. And that's why I'm here today. A terrible earthquake struck Myanmar today, the day I'm recording this, which is Friday, the 28th of March. It was 7.7 on the Richter scale. We know of more than 100 deaths, but it's likely the death toll is much, much, much higher. Lots of the telegraph and internet infrastructure has been taken out by the earthquake and the Hunter restricts internet and social media access. So we don't really know the full story. extent of the death, but we can imagine it will be very high as one of the areas most affected was Mandalay, which is the second largest city in Myanmar. I've spoken to half a dozen sources in Myanmar today, people who Robert and I have interviewed before. They're all okay, but they all shared how terrible things were.
They said things were as bad as they were at the time of Cyclone Nargis, which was a terrible disaster in 2008. If you would like to support the people of Burma who are currently fighting against a tyrannical dictatorship, as well as dealing with the consequences of this natural disaster, there are a couple of ways you can do so. I was actually already running a fundraiser on my Patreon for MobiePDF. They are a casualty evacuation team in Southern Shan State, right at the fiercest part of the fighting right now. They don't fight. What they do is they go and they evacuate people who have been injured and they provide medical services to internally displaced people. They've been doing this since 2021.
They're incredibly brave people and they've saved more than 300 lives. You can read more about them by going to my Patreon post, which also includes all the links for donation. The website for that is tinyurl.com slash help hyphen Myanmar. That's tinyurl.com slash h-e-l-p hyphen m-y-a-n-m-a-r if you'd like to donate somewhere else an organization that you can donate to is the free burma rangers free burma rangers.org they're a fantastic ngo they've been doing a lot of medical work uh in the liberated zones of myanmar for a very long time they've also worked in rajava and lots of other places around the world where people need help I spoke to Dave from FPR today, he's well, and he told me that they're already starting to respond to the disaster. So to donate to them, FreeBurmaRangers.org. Thanks very much. We appreciate your support.
Oh, welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast that is happening right now to your ears. There's nothing you can do about it except for like turn off your phone or your headset, but don't do that. Listen to these great episodes that we have with my good friend, Mengesh. Mengesh, welcome to the program.
Thank you so much for having me, Robert and Sophie. I'm thrilled to be here.
Mango's here. Mango, you used to work at the company that we currently work at, and now you're independent. You're a pirate, you know, flying your own flag in the middle of the sea, but the sea is podcasts.
Yeah. I mean, a jolly pirate, I hope.
All pirates are jolly. And you co-host a podcast with our boss and friend, Will Pearson, called Part-Time Genius.
Our boss friend.
But friend and boss. Notice how I ordered that. And people should listen to it. It's like a podcast that'll make you happy. You'll get to learn a thing, but it'll be fun.
That is so sweet. It really is. It's like the way that we used to talk in college, really nerdy and late into the night and just making each other laugh. And it feels nice that we get to do that still all these years later. Excellent.
Well, you're not going to you're not going to feel good after we tell you what we're talking about today.
What we're going to what we're going to talk about today is not something that will make you feel good.
It's going to make you feel really bad.
Yeah. We're going to talk about the history of quack snake oil cures that kill children in an attempt to cure them of autism. Oh, my gosh. I'm not laughing at that. That's horrible, which is why we're talking about it. But it's such a fucked up thing to be like, hello, good friend.
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