173. Naomi Oreskes — Why Trust Science?
The Michael Shermer Show
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Is There a God Behind It?
Some people have been trying to put forward biological arguments for why we are so polarized. But the risk, though, is a kind of reductionist approach that then misses other important thingsd i think we see this very clearly if you say, look at some of the explanations that've been put forward in recent years for extreme political polarizationwe now experience in america. And when we try to find Biological explanations for cultural phenomeno, usually it goes very badly.
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