Forbidden Data: The facts they don't want you to say out loud🍸 Ep. 208

There's a fact sitting in a government database right now. Documented. Peer-reviewed. Completely accessible to anyone willing to look. Say it out loud, though, and the conversation changes — you're not debating the fact anymore, you're defending why you said it. This week, Shane and Tim sit down with political science professor and author Wilfred Reilly to dig into the architecture of modern censorship — not the government kind, but the social kind. The kind where nobody has to pass a law because the cost of speaking is already too high. Wilfred breaks down whether the suppression he documents in his book Taboo is coordinated or emergent, walks through the "journolist" phenomenon and what it reveals about media consensus, and unpacks the data on political skew across academic departments. The conversation moves through the peak social media censorship era of 2018-2021, the personal and social cost of saying the wrong thing out loud, and closes with a wide-ranging look at how surveillance culture has reshaped youth socialization entirely. As always — we don't hand you the verdict. We hand you the evidence and the argument. You decide. Follow Wilfred Reilly:Website: https://www.wilfredreilly.com/X (Twitter): https://x.com/wil_da_beast630Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WilfredReilly630Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B07RBL17FQWikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_ReillyPodcast (Cut the Bull): https://www.youtube.com/@cutthebullpodcast Books mentioned:Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About: https://www.amazon.com/Taboo-Facts-Cant-Talk-About-ebook/dp/B07YL539K6Hate Crime Hoax: How the Left is Selling a Fake Race War: https://www.amazon.com/Hate-Crime-Hoax-Lefts-Campaign-ebook/dp/B07F6RN7Y4Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: https://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Liberal-Teacher-Told/dp/0063265974🔗 Connect with Cocktails & Conspiracies:🟣 Visit us online at https://www.cocktailsconspiracies.com⚫ Follow us on X: https://x.com/conspiracyonx🔴 Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/CocktailsConspiracies🔵 Follow us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/CocktailsConspiracies