Cosmic Queries – Why do we believe conspiracy theories? with Michael Shermer
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What Does It Mean to Be a Skeptic?
No one in the history of the world is ever self-identified as a pseudo-scientist. And so the question is, what does it mean to be a skeptic? Really, it's following the evidence. When there's enough evidence to kind of tip the scales into belief with a small B in the truth, with a small T, when there's a consensus, you can say, yeah, okay, so I'll accept it as provisionally true.
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