191. Michael Gordin on the Fringe of Where Science Meets Pseudoscience
The Michael Shermer Show
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Is It a Good Idea to Cover the Flat Earthers?
There was a big efflorescence of these things in the early cold war, 19 fifties. You get a whole spate of alternative theories that imagine themselves to be heterodox. And there's a broader question about how much people should be upset by the fact that there are flat arthers or big foot theorists around. But it also has a shape. There's moments when that's a better theory or not. Shakespeare authorship controversies happen at different times a and there's they are always there, but they flare up. And we're definitely corona virus have been a moment when there's been a flare up thers this moment.
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