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Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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The Psychology of Consensus

False balance coverage where news media gives equal time to both credible and non-critical sources. Even the mainstream media sometimes will have contrarians or prop up contrarians just to balance out a conversation. People's mental model of science very much revolves around their perception of whether science agrees on something like gravity is real humans are causing global warming vaccines, he says.

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