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492: Michael Shermer | Why We Believe Weird Things
The Jordan Harbinger Show
The Power of Belief
Science is flawed to a certain extent, but it is still the best system we have. This doesn't just apply to scientists and scientific research; this applies to regular people too. Our brains evolved as propensity to assume that A's are connected to B's even when they're not. And we don't have a good filtering system because there was no science when we evolve.
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