Decoding the Gurus Creators & Guests

Matthew Browne is a Professor of Psychology at Central Queensland University, and co-host of Decoding the Gurus podcast.

Christopher Kavanagh is a cognitive anthropologist, social psychologist, and host of Decoding the Gurus podcast.

Michael Shellenberger is an author.

Sam Harris is a neuroscientist, philosopher, New York Times best-selling author, host of the Making Sense podcast, and creator of the Waking Up app.

Tamler Sommers is a professor of philosophy at the University of Houston. He is an author of several books. He is co-hosts, along with psychologist David Pizarro, of the podcast Very Bad Wizards.

Josh Szeps, previously known as Josh Zepps, is an Australian media personality, political satirist, and television presenter. He currently hosts Weekend Breakfast on ABC News and We The People LIVE Podcast.

Konstantin Kisin is a comedian and co-host of the show Triggernometry.

Dr. Manvir Singh is an anthropologist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse.

Matt Johnson writes for Haaretz, Quillette, The Daily Beast, and many other publications. He's the author of How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment.

Matthew Remski is a yoga student, instructor, and therapist. He currently trains yoga instructors.He has co-directed Yoga Festival Toronto and Yoga Community Toronto. He has written eight books, including poetry and fiction. His book "Threads of Yoga: A Remix of Patanjali’s Sutras with Commentary and Reverie," was published in 2012. His most recent book, "Practice and All is Coming: Abuse, Cult Dynamics, and Healing in Yoga and Beyond," was published in 2019.

Renee DiResta is the Director of Research at cybersecurity company New Knowledge, and Head of Policy at the nonprofit Data for Democracy.

Dan is a podcaster and comedian who is taking a break from comedy, working out of Chicago.Dan has a cross-eye, and has been fascinated by conspiracy theories for years, lurking on blogs and message boards to get a sense of what the "researchers" believe. He never really believed any of that stuff though, mostly thanks to his extensive training in formal logic. Now he is trying to use his knowledge of conspiracy and logic to build a robust Knowledge Fight.

Amanda Montell is a linguist, writer, editor, and author of Wordslut.

Sabine Hossenfelder is a German theoretical physicist, author, and musician who researches quantum gravity.

Jesse Singal is a Brooklyn-based journalist, currently writing a book about social science, social justice, and the replication crisis for Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Contributing writer at New York Magazine, where he was previously editor of the behavioral-science vertical Science of Us, and then a writer-at-large covering everything from social science to politics to weird internet lingo involving staple crops.

Peter Thiel is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, philanthropist, political activist, and author.

Hasan Piker is a political commentator and member of the globalist vampire cabal.

Helen Lewis is a journalist, former deputy editor of the New Statesman, writer, and author of the book Difficult Women.