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"Mini" Decoding of Michael Shermer's Advice on Conspiracy Theories
Decoding the Gurus
The Negative Valence of Proxies
Shimmer: Belief in conspiracy theories is an outcome. It's an outcome of your motivated reasoning and your desire to fit the world, the observable facts or reality to fit your ideology. I don't like this group over here. People are saying they're doing these things. Yeah, maybe there's something to it. Even if there isn't,. There's kind of a more general negative valence to your opinions about them. And so even if I took you to the comment ping pong pizza, we didn't go, look, there's no there's no basement. There's no pedophile ring here.
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