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.
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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