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Wired.com presents the Geek's guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host David David Barr Kirtley.

Hello, and welcome to episode 420 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Christopher J Ferguson. He's a professor of

psychology at Stetson University and his articles have appeared in the

New York Times, The New York Daily News, and the Houston Chronicle. He's also the author of the mystery novel Suicide Kings.

And his short fiction has appeared in magazines such as Aophilian and Dons Macabre.

And we'll be speaking with him today about his non-fiction books moral combat why the war on violent

video games is wrong, which he wrote with Patrick M. Markey, and have madness shaped history,

an eccentric array of maniacal rulers, raving narcissists, and psychotic

visionaries. And now here's our interview with Christopher J Ferguson.

All right, so we're here with Christopher J Ferguson. Welcome to the show.

Well, thanks for having me on today.

It's a pleasure.

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