E218. Michael Shermer On The Truth About Conspiracy Theories
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Is There a Rise in American Conspiracy Theories?
I'm wondering if he sees an uptick in America's embrace of conspiracy theories or if it's business as usual for us. If he does believe conspiratorial thinking is on the rise when did the increase start and what does he think is fueling it? He says those kind of numbers have gone up because of the penetration of social media hmm interesting if you could wave a wand to magically make conspiracy theories and pseudo science go away would you noBecause well this leads to pseudoscience out just conspiracy theories again so many of them turn out to be true. It's important that you be skeptical of institutions and anyone with power really needs checks and balances we really should be cautious I'll give short answers
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