Is It a Matter of Loyalty the Tribe?

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i think steve pinker makes the point that we, all of us, to some extent, hold opinions that we do, not because we've thought them through, but because it's our tribe. The republican tribe, at least part of them, it, it is a tribe, believes these ridiculous things. But this is what my tribe believes. This is what our people believe. And i don't t tha, that is more rational. Something else, egoing to huy their own shoe laces.

In episode 205, Michael Shermer speaks with Richard Dawkins, the author of The Selfish Gene, voted The Royal Society’s Most Inspiring Science Book of All Time, and also the bestsellers The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, The Ancestor’s Tale, The God Delusion, and two volumes of autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder and Brief Candle in the Dark. He is a Fellow of New College, Oxford and both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world’s top thinker in Prospect magazine’s poll of 10,000 readers from over 100 countries.

This episode is heavily edited because Dawkins was having trouble with his voice, and Shermer tried to speak a little more to give Dawkins a chance to let his voice rest.