190. Jonathan Rauch — The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
The Michael Shermer Show
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Do You Really Believe This?
conspiracy theories can float all this stuff and get everyone else to chase it. They then use that focus to further amplify through the population, you get an upward spiral of disinformation. And what you do with these false beliefs is you marginalize them. You justt them die out. No one acquires them. No one cares about them. If you're not in office, you've lost. Whatever takes, in a kind ofa machiavellian way to get into office. Lie, whatever. This is how politics works. Kids grow up, get tough. Too bad. Thiss. I don't know. i think trump looks at it that way. He views anything that comes
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