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Carl Sagan: My God, it's full of stars

Decoding the Gurus

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The Skepticism of Donald Trump

Sagan's advice to be willing to call out fraudulent claims or claims that lack evidence is particularly important today. The conspiratorial talk you will see really weaponizes the skepticism doesn't it so they will use that argument which is whether you cannot prove that this isn't possibly true but we should consider it seriously. I heard on a very centristy podcast the fifth column and their most recent episode where they had a great guest who was talking about a kind of epistemic crisis that we're in at the moment. Their goal is to make people give up on the idea that you can know the truth about anything at all yeah.

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