Cosmic Queries – Why do we believe conspiracy theories? with Michael Shermer
StarTalk Radio
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Why Isn't Everyone in Charge?
We tend to see patterns in random noise and infuse those patterns with agency. So much of the world operates randomly, there's just a lot of statistical randomness that explains things,. But it's hard to see randomness, right? "It looks like big dippers and little dippers and scorpions and fish and horses"
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