Is There a Bob Trivers Theory About Self-Detection?

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Bob Trivers theory about self-deception: If you are lying, it's a heavier cognitive load. You just have to keep track of the truth and the lie. But if you actually believe the lie, it's just one story. That's just theory about that. I wonder if there's some of that with the exorcism or the Amanda Knox story or I don't know how you want to connect to that. So yeah, let's talk about Amanda Knox. Remind us of what her story is and and and all that. She happens to be a particularly attractive woman by anyone's standards. It was it was ridiculous with these piercing blue eyes. And you look into those

Shermer and Gold discuss: diversity, equity, and inclusion in the media • social justice movements and their motivations • bias in STEM fields • why people believe weird things • exorcisms • UFOs • faith healers • Derren Brown and how magic works on minds • hypnosis • sex and where to have an affair • Ashley Madison • female/male differences in sexual preferences and choices • non-offending pedophiles in Berlin • the curious case of Jimmy Seville: why didn’t anyone notice his pedophilia?

Andrew Gold is a British journalist whose podcast On the Edge with Andrew Gold investigates belief, cults and extreme ideologies. He speaks five languages, has lived in six countries and has made award-winning documentaries around the world for the BBC and HBO about fringe topics, from exorcism and UFOs to abortion and porn stars, and even more controversial terrain, such as his two years investigating pedophiles. On his podcast he has interviewed Richard Dawkins, Amanda Knox, John McWhorter, Gad Saad, Peter Boghossian, Robbie Williams and that Shermer guy…as well as several psychopaths, murderers, cult defectors and a guy who had to eat his friends after a plane crash. The reason he started his podcast is because the UK TV producers who work with the BBC kept insisting that he no longer be visible on-screen in his films because, he was told, they needed “a minority.”