E218. Michael Shermer On The Truth About Conspiracy Theories
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In the last few years not believing a lot of these theories can actually be detrimental to your health finances etc. Occam's razor has been weaponized it shields those will with ill intent and then someone said that don't attribute to malice what you can attribute to incompetence to pity crowd rightYeah I use that line in the book it's kind of not mine original to me but it is true in so many placesYou know before you you look for malice and some secret power hungry cabal at work just think maybe people are just incompetent or maybe it's just randomness, he says.
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