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263: Let's Get Alex Epstein on Bill Maher

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

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The Scepticism of the Evidence Is a Trigger Word

Scepticism is the scepticism of the certainty with which evidence is presented. The more you cana think, part of having any background in science, and just even background on thinking a suf, you have an idea of it's hard to get to truths that you can have confidence in. And then also, it's really hard to get confidence in ideas. This brings us to 97 %, which has so many fallacies in it. But the basic fallacy is the fallacy of equivocation. It means using the same word to mean different things, to manipulate people. So when you hear 97 % of scientists say that climate change is real, you'll hear that, right?

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