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🗓️ 5 December 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Oftentimes what you find is you see people come and go from the idea relatively quickly. |
| 0:05.7 | It's always a revolving door of people who are in and out. Whereas with more scientific disciplines, |
| 0:10.4 | you'll see people who spend careers there. Welcome to the Art of Charm. I'm Jordan Harbinger and |
| 0:17.2 | I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo. On this episode we'll be talking with my friend Dr. Justin |
| 0:22.6 | Ramzell. Dr. Ramzell is a professor of psychology at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. |
| 0:27.8 | He teaches forensic psychology outside of forensic psychology. He's also an expert witness consultant. |
| 0:34.0 | So he goes to court as an expert witness and a crisis intervention team trainer for local |
| 0:39.3 | and federal law enforcement agencies. And today we're going to talk about how to identify |
| 0:44.8 | pseudoscience and separate from real science. He'll also show us why this is important. And when |
| 0:50.2 | pseudoscience can actually be helpful and useful, we'll also explore several traits of pseudoscience, |
| 0:56.0 | the guru phenomenon and even touch on conspiracy theories and other quackery. |
| 1:00.7 | Last but not least, we'll learn some critical thinking exercises to help keep us one step ahead |
| 1:06.4 | of pseudoscience peddlers that might not have our best interests in mind. Don't forget we have |
| 1:11.2 | a worksheet for today's episodes. You can make sure you solidify your understanding of the key |
| 1:15.6 | takeaways here from Dr. Ramzell. That link is in the show notes at the artofcharm.com slash podcast. |
| 1:22.1 | As you all know, I am a huge fan of anything that owns critical thinking skills and takes a |
| 1:27.7 | jab at quackery, especially at the same time. So I think you'll also enjoy this episode with Dr. |
| 1:33.1 | Justin Ramzell. Dr. Justin, thank you for coming on the show today. How did you get into this? I |
| 1:38.4 | know that you do expert testimony in court. The things that you present have to hold up in court. |
| 1:43.9 | Is that how you got interested in the differences between BS and real science? Yeah, it was mostly out |
| 1:49.3 | of necessity. Roughly 75, 76% of the states in the United States use something called the |
| 1:57.0 | Daubert standard to determine what constitutes an expert in a given field in the courtroom. |
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