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267. Louis Theroux on Neo-Nazis, Jimmy Savile, UFO Cults, and Scientology

The Michael Shermer Show

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You Don't Do That, You're a Child Again

When i am did my story on marshal silver as part as one of the sequences, i sat in the audience. One of his lieutenants was also a hypnotist. He got me to feel very calm and then he sort of said, you are feeling very calm now. I want you to go under now. And i found myself playing along without meaning to just because it would have been too awkward to say, Just stop itud. Et, but humans a tigt. You know this as much as anyone, like humans, we don't actyou know, there's a real social logic around aspects of behaviour. Or there's a logic to peer pressure, a,

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