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116 - Massimo Pigliucci: Pseudoscience, Conspiracy Theories, and the Public Intellectual
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The Importance of Logos in Science
The pseudo scientist or conspiracy theory monger also has access to the logos, the ethos and the pathos. So maybe they're maybe their logos isn't going to be as well informed. But you mentioned telling anecdote stories, these sorts of things. If somebody like RFK who clearly has a great ability to develop rapport with people through interviews, starts telling stories about people who are quote unquote vaccine injured that is immediately going to evoke sympathy from his target audience. Well, I guess he can tell stories about how vaccines have saved people's lives. It's just a fundamental fact of psychology that we're extremely loss of verse. And if we hear one story about a child becoming autistic purportedly
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