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328. Paul Bloom — Psych: The Story of the Human Mind

The Michael Shermer Show

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Is There a Right Number of Immigrants?

The author has been playing with the idea of different kinds of truths. He says you have objective empirical truths like dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago. Then there's something like pure, I don't know, subjective truths such as meditation works for me or stairway to heaven. And then somewhere in between is something like political truths: what's the right number of immigrants we should allow each year? Maybe there isn't a right answer and it depends on how systems are set up he says.

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