191. Michael Gordin on the Fringe of Where Science Meets Pseudoscience
The Michael Shermer Show
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What Do You Say to a Pseudoscientist?
No one in the history of the world has ever self identified as a pseudo scientist. So what do you say to somebody like that who genuinely think they're doing something? I'm just kind of curious about how it works, and i often want to know how they came to it. You see, flat earth is probably the most recent kind of efflorescence of this um. That's a fascinating phenomenon. It would be interesting to know which ones we're living in now that we just take for granted, and a century from now they'll go up. Look at those people in the early 20 first century, they thought x and now we know that's not true.
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