The longer you cheat and get away with it the more confident you become that you won't get caught, says Lance Armstrong. But is it also the case that the less aware you are that you're actually cheating? "I'm totally not with columbia right the people who are doing it egregiously obviously it doesn't even know," he adds. 'They probably give themselves excuses because they also don't think they're doing anything bad'
Maria Konnikova, Revisionist History’s ombudsman—who's also an author, psychologist and professional poker player—is back for another round. This time she reads letters from the audience on the power of debate, and whether or not certain four letter words belong in Pushkin’s podcasts. Maria and Malcolm also look at the Columbia cheating scandal from a different angle, and hand out one more sparkling Pushkin Prize.
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