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180. Andy Norman — Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think
The Michael Shermer Show
The Science of Mental Immunity
Right wing fear mongers have been whipping stories about, i don't know, binary people or homosexual marriage into a threat to the traditional ituation of marriage. I think there's a whole lot of scaremongering going on there. In one way, you cane propagandists and and idiologs have known for decades that you can basically hack a mind's immune system with fear, with disdain. When when trump a describes his liberal opponents with disdain in his voice, turns out that's a very powerful way to inoculate republican minds against what democrats want to teach. And this goes back to one of the early pieces of research underlying the science of mental immunity. A is the
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