Expert Skeptic on Why Smart People Fall for Conspiracies | Michael Shermer | ACADEMIA | Rubin Report
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How to Determine Which Conspiracies Are Real
Alex Jones was banned by everybody within a day or so after Sandy Hook. Peter Thiel said that once one of them did it, then it was just the signal to everybody else. So it's not a coordinated phone call conspiracy that you're talking about but some other level related to fear and manipulation. How typical conspiracies really unfold? I went into detail in that chapter on what triggered the First World War.
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