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"
Why do rational people believe irrational things? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice break down media literacy, the psychology behind conspiracy theories, and how to combat our cognitive biases with author and science historian, Michael Shermer.
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