Good Faith or Bad Faith?

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I think most of the time dreadful things that you think of ar happened through some kind of good faith. I also think that in some there's some instances in which good faith and bad faith is blurred. There was a guy i did hastorion called marshal silverwho ran a millionaire mentor ship programme in las vagas. And whether or not he really believed his ar his programme offered something real is extremely hard to say. All true deceivers have to believe in themselves utterly, or there’s something they should have to drink their own coolade. It's the basic idea. Ye am, we know that there's a lot of canarists and grifters and and

Shermer and Theroux discuss: how documentary films are made • religious fanaticism and why people believe • UFO cults, end-times sects, and cognitive dissonance • Scientology: religion or cult? • neo-Nazis and anti-Semitism • prisons, pornography, and prostitution • Jeffrey Epstein and Jimmy Savile • self-help movements and gurus • deception and self-deception • social proof and human conformity • are humans naturally rational, irrational, or both?

Louis Theroux is a genre-defining documentary filmmaker best known for his explorations of controversial and complex topics. Using a gentle questioning style and an informal approach, Louis has shone light on intriguing beliefs, behaviors, and institutions by getting to know the people at the heart of them — from the officers and inmates at San Quentin prison to the extreme believers of the Westboro Baptist Church; from male porn performers in California to young women with eating disorders in London.