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"Mini" Decoding of Michael Shermer's Advice on Conspiracy Theories

Decoding the Gurus

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Shemer's Heuristics Aren't Good

Sally Kohn: Shemer's heuristics aren't good, in part because he lets his politics intrude on the way that he approaches things. But my gut feeling is that Shemer has that slightly more childish worldview, which is that it's conspiratorial. It's a conspiracy theory that there's this whole hidden world going on down there," she says. "It dovetails perfectly well with his libertarian political point of view"

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