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Show Notes
Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine and the author of many books, including Why People Believe Weird Things, the Moral Arc, and most recently, Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational.
Conspiracy:https://www.amazon.ca/Conspiracy-Why-Rational-Believe-Irrational/dp/1421444453
Michael on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/michaelshermer
Richard Hanania Interview:
Jon Askonas: Reality is Just a Game Now
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-now
0:00 History
6:30 Conspiracy Theories
24:00 Religious Sects
41:00 Evolutionary Adaptation
57:30 Social Media Algorithms
1:13:30 Sex Differences
1:17:00 Trump
1:31:00 Pandemics
1:36:00 Deep State
1:51:00 Lab Leak
1:59:00 The Intellectual Dark Web
2:10:00 Academia
2:28:00 Chaos and Order
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