227. Richard Nisbett on Thinking & Reason
The Michael Shermer Show
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Why Did the Planes Hit the Buildings and Explosive Devices Be Used?
conspiracy theories are often proxies for some other belief, a deeper belief. So if i take you to the comet ping pong petsare an washington, d c, and show you that they don't have a basement, much less a petifile ring run by hilary where they're eating babies, it's not like you're going to go, oh, in that case, i'll vote for hilary or y i think i'll be a democrat. We can debunk this through logic. You know, we publish all this stuff in sceptic but, you know, people don't care about the details. It's like, i don't like republicans, or
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