Expert Skeptic on Why Smart People Fall for Conspiracies | Michael Shermer | ACADEMIA | Rubin Report
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Is Bill Barr Just Part of the Machine That Would Produce That Kind of Life?
CNN's John Sutter says that if you don't trust the entire Department of Justice, who would you trust and why would you trust somebody else, if not them? If Bill Barr said, hey, I, you know, I found some suspicion. Well, of course he's a Trump appointed Republican. Maybe we need another source. That's just kind of how to think about that kind of conspiracy theory. But let's not blame Republicans because Democrats do this also. There's so many moving parts in a national election. No one has access to all the information. So there's always going to be some anomalies and then people go anomaly hunting as we call it and then you can always
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