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492: Michael Shermer | Why We Believe Weird Things
The Jordan Harbinger Show
The Moral Arc of Beliefs
Smart people stick to beliefs even more because they're better at rationalizing those same beliefs. "It's not like educated smart people are less likely to believe nonsense," he says. Guns have been almost fetishized in our culture except for guns, where we already do this in all walks of life but gun control.
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