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202. Julia Galef — The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t

The Michael Shermer Show

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Is There a Conspiracy Theory?

Most conspiracy theories surround major corporations, governments or rich people. The tricky thing though is just that there's often a leap made from the genuine conspiracies a to more crazy conspiracies which i think is not justified. And also, it's sometimes used to justify, like, you know, tuskeki happened, therefore it's reasonable to think that like, the c i a created covet and is now infecting everyone in the country with it,. That's like, way too big of a leap to make.

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