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If i wouldn't have read that book, i'd probably my parents wanted to marry me off at 15. I'd probably have 25 kids right now and live in a house with no running water,. And i think that's why i have empathy am for for people tat get kind of taken off of, off of the ath of reality, and they they get side tracked by these things. But not all of them are going to walk into the library and tell the library and i have no idea what i want to read. What do you recommend the libraryan acted like that was a thing people do. So it's possibly not a popular way to find things out, but i wanted,

In this episode we sit down with Joey Rodman (@okiespacequeen), a science educator in Oklahoma whose recent Twitter thread about using a portable planetarium to reach out to flat earthers went viral thanks to their counterintuitive advice about how to discuss science denial and conspiracy theories with people who may have never interacted with a scientist before.

After years of on-the-ground, one-on-one conversations, Joey has developed a technique similar to those we've discussed on the show, including street epistemology, motivational interviewing, deep canvassing, and even the socratic method. It shares elements with all of these, but was developed in-person through conversations with people who met with Joey in their communities and home towns.

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