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197 - Conspiratorial Thinking

You Are Not So Smart

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The Line Between a Conspiracy Theory and Healthy Skepticism and Distrust of Mainstream Information

There are no grand conspiracies that were on the fringe because they were highly implausible that then turned out to be true. There certainly have been government and corporate conspiracies in the moderate level conspiracies. Brad Clark asks, how do you define the line between a conspiracy theory and healthy skepticism and distrust of mainstream information? "I just think you have to evaluate every claim on its own merits"

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