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anything like that, but we will have a lot of that coming up in the future. We have an

episode coming up about procrastination. We have one coming up about the epidemics and how doctors deal with their own emotions and how doctors deal with

cognitive biases and how they protect themselves from it and all of those episodes

are going to be really cool because we have scientists and doctors and psychologists and people who are going to help us understand each one.

In the Dunning-Kruger episode we have Dr Dunning of the Dunning-Kruger effect and in the optimism bias episode we have

Talley Sharad who is she was on the cover of time recently so those are going to be

really cool episodes today though we're going to talk about a specific logical fallacy and if you've never heard

of logical fallacies before even though we talk about them on the show I

assume that a lot of people this is their first episode maybe you've never heard

of what

these are and it sounds like it's some sort of complicated term but it's not it's just

you know when you get into a discussion or an argument or you're trying to reach a

conclusion or make a decision sometimes you know

argumentation is the way that you go about reasoning you you say well I'm going to do this

because of this and this is right because of that and if you think of those those as sort of like word puzzles as if they're like

mathematical formula sometimes you can skip a step or get caught up in your own

and your own reasoning and you don't realize you've done that.

And you end up making a mistake and you don't know it and you think that you're reaching your

conclusion in a purely logical and rational manner, but you didn't because you committed a logical fallacy.

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