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Why We Get Fooled

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Importance of Logic in Arguments

Kennedy's a lawyer is to win your case not to figure out what's true. Winning, winning the case in many cases is essentially a social process and that you need to convince enough people to vote one way or the other. I think in the legal framework, it's a little harder to get away with complete nonsense than in the public arena. There's sort of like a logical asymmetry in that whole argument. Well, if your theory can't explain this thing, then it can't explain anything.

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