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Not Born Yesterday by Hugo Mercier

Worker and Parasite

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Is There a Theory Behind Why People Are Gullible?

I assume he's like, basically completely fluent English speaker because that's like all scientists have to be. But we've read other people who were supposedly native English speakers. He makes a very convincing argument that no it's probably not because they're being fooled or they're accepting stupid ideas because they are gullible reasons for like this type of behavior. And then I just mean I do realize this guy was like French living in France or something, because it's really well written. Yeah. Oh yeah and that's the other thing like it's it's a very engaging book it's also like not super long. Or it's not jargony it's not dense there's no math and

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