I think the vast majority of these things haven't been investigated scientifically and I think a strong a large percentage of the ones that have if they have. People have believed in psychic phenomena for like Bellenia right so I guess what I'm asking just as somebody distinguish between yeah how do you distinguish between? Arthur Conan Sir Arthur Conan Doyle he was a sucker for the supernatural and he and Houdini were once friends and and sort of parted ways because during the the rise of spiritualism in Europe and in America Sherlock Holmes bought it whole cloth.
Journalist, podcaster, and rapper Jesse Singal joins us to talk about his new book The Quick Fix, positive psychology (scam?), cancel culture in the media and academia (overblown?), Substack incentives, and lots more. Plus David and Tamler argue about the epistemology of ghosts.
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