Tyson Shermer and Cicero Artifan, the first artist to take Cubism and Impressionism and put them together. Savain: How do we self-assess to make sure that we are not falling prey to all these wonderful biases that you have pointed out to us? We look at ourselves in the mirror. This is unusual what we're going through now where Trump has kept it alive because he still has some political pull in the GOP.
Why do rational people believe irrational things? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice break down media literacy, the psychology behind conspiracy theories, and how to combat our cognitive biases with author and science historian, Michael Shermer.
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