251. Kelly Weill on Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
The Michael Shermer Show
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Is Your Life Boring Compared to This?
i think there's a very good reason that a lot of people compare cuion too like a role playing video game. It gives people this a, you can almost see the mental reward system work out in real time. Where somebody thinks they've forged a connection between hilary clinton and like a petza parlor. We as a species, we love solving puzzles. We love finding patterns. And that is just such a desirable thing to happen in your brain That yet, i mean, listen, it'sthe the fact of being an adult is sometimes tis woring.
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