#1888 - Michael Shermer

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4.6 • 228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 169 minutes

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Dr. Michael Shermer is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, host of the podcast "The Michael Shermer Show," and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University. He is the author of several books, the most recent of which is "Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational." https://michaelshermer.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Joe Rogan,
0:05.0	Experience.
0:06.0	Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast, all day.
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0:15.0	Michael Schur. I come bearing sign gifts for you, sir.
0:18.0	I hope that's the...
0:19.0	Why the rational believe the irrational. Right.
0:23.0	Why is that?
0:24.0	Is it simple?
0:26.0	It wouldn't be this big of a book that was simple.
0:28.0	Yeah, it's not that simple.
0:30.0	Well, first of all, my argument is that it's not irrational to believe conspiracy theories because enough of them are true
0:37.2	That it pays air on the side of assuming more of them are true than actually are than missing real
0:44.7	conspiracy theories and then that's a costly error error to make. That's a rational
0:50.0	perspective. The term conspiracy theory got thrown about it.
0:54.0	There was the first introduction of it into the zeitgeist was during the Kennedy assassination,
0:59.7	correct?
1:00.7	Yeah, well, around that time, right, it, before that, before World War II really,
1:05.6	conspiracy theories were kind of common knowledge. Everybody knew that things were
1:10.0	going on behind closed doors, and it was just kind of commonly known and we just kind of
1:14.8	try to figure it out. It didn't become really fringy until right after the JFK thing
1:18.8	that it kind of got as a meme that you're crazy to think these conspiracy theories are true.
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