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Cosmic Queries – Why do we believe conspiracy theories? with Michael Shermer

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What Would It Take to Change My Mind?

Scientists are subject to all these same biases, but they can't let themselves get away with it because their colleagues will call them out on it. So you have to kind of mind read. You have to put yourself in somebody else's critics and check your ego at the door. "You just have my mother as your mother," Michael tells his son Chuck.

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