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307. Nicholas Dirks on Science Denial, Distrust, and Skepticism

The Michael Shermer Show

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Is Psychic Power Possible as ESP?

CNN's John Sutter talks about the replication crisis that began after Darrell Bem's famous experiment on sort of backward causality. He says scientists will pursue a truth for all kinds of reasons, sometimes because they are related to systems that are part of geopolitical struggle. "Science is years later, you know, you recognize what the importance of a particular discovery is," he says.

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