171: The easiest person to fool is yourself (with Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris)
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The Importance of Skepticism
Skeptics are good at zeroing in on what we currently believe and being critical about things that we disbelieve. But skeptics can be fooled just as easily if you are targeting them in particular. I'd go so far as to say that a lot of scientists don't actually think like scientists most of the time. We've got another 160 episodes or name names. That's perfectly all right. The only question I wanted to ask would be, can you email me the code? Because I don't really have the ability to interrogate people here.
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