CNN's John Sutter asks Michael Altschuler if science denying people will lead us all to extension. "No, we shouldn't censor those ideas," he says of Alex Jones and other conspiracy theorists who are not following the rules of rationality or fact-checking that journalism has" In a free society, they can have a whip because they have their own podcast or like an Alex Jones type person. He's unlikely to be the lead anchor on ABC News, right? SoThose gatekeepers keep people like that out for a good reason. Those kind of people do occasionally get into positions of power, but not often. And as much as it's found on Trump, he's not president
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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