Why are we so gullible?, with Brian Dunning
People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast
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What Are Your Thoughts on the Perception of Life Strangeness?
It can just feel good and exciting to feel like we've stumbled across some secret information. That's one thing that's attractive at a conscious level to the conspiracy theory crowd. Another factor that has struck me about our willingness to believe in various ideas is just the strangeness of life. And I think that can lend itself to a proclivity to believe, bullshit or pseudoscience.
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