Cosmic Queries – Why do we believe conspiracy theories? with Michael Shermer
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How Do We Rebuild Confidence in Institutions?
There's always election anomalies if you go and search for them, we call that anomaly hunting. You have to have some trust in institutions that do confirm these things,. That should have been the end of the story when society is normally structured in a way where you trust institutions like that. But that's not the world we live in at the moment. People don't trust science like they used to, or the CDC, or scientists, or professors, and they certainly don't trust politicians anymore. So that's a big problem for us now. And I want to actually save that for the third segment because we want to know, we need some positive thoughts at the end of this.
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