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The Jordan Harbinger Show

492: Michael Shermer | Why We Believe Weird Things

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Talk Radio, Business, Science, Education

4.812.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Famed skeptic Michael Shermer joins us to make sense of a question as old as our most distant ancestors: why do we believe weird things?

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coming up on the jordan harbanger show

0:02.6

you know we know about the research from the paper that it's that people are

0:05.6

about

0:06.1

are highly

0:07.2

genetically

0:08.2

inclined to be either conservative or liberal

0:11.4

or religious or not very religious well there can't be a gene for being a

0:14.7

Catholic or a democrat no

0:16.7

what it is is

0:17.6

genes code for

0:19.1

personality temperament like

0:21.1

i'd like

0:22.1

this kind of world view because it makes me feel good

0:25.9

and all these other people that are in this group is tried

0:29.7

they're like me and i like being around people that are like me it feels good

0:33.5

and that's where the genes and the emotions kind of

0:36.4

meld there

0:37.8

and it ends up being that well

0:40.1

we call our moral drive democrats are republicans are for catholic so

0:43.8

proud of things are bonus

0:45.4

you know and the culture ends up sorting it out in the details

0:48.9

but the deeper part is how we feel about being a part of that group and we

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