Conspiracy Expert: How to Spot a True Conspiracy Theory - Michael Shermer

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Michael Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, executive director of The Skeptics Society, and founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, a publication focussed on investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. He is the author of over a dozen books, the most recent of which is ‘Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational.’

You can find Michael's book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1421444453/

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Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

00:00 Intro
01:16 Michael Shermer’s Background
03:21 The Information Era’s Impact on Conspiracies
10:06 Big Tech Speech Censorship
16:40 When Should a Media Platform Censor Someone?
19:27 Sponsor Message: Athletic Greens
20:58 The Twitter Files
28:33 Have We Become More Conspiratorial?
36:51 Epstein’s Island & Flight Logs
42:33 The Great Reset
48:11 The Conspiracy Theorist Demographic
55:52 Conspiracy & Victimhood
1:00:54 What’s the One Thing We’re Not Talking About?

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0:00.0	You may have heard about people's postcode lottery, and often wondered how does it work.
0:06.0	Playing is simple.
0:07.0	You sign up for a monthly subscription of 12 pounds, guaranteeing you entry into every draw,
0:12.0	and your ticket is your postcode.
0:15.0	Prizes are one every day, including millionaire street, where one lucky postcode wins a share
0:21.0	of 1 million pounds every Saturday.
0:24.0	Also, at the end of the month, players in one postcode area win a share of a minimum
0:29.0	of £3.2 million, a minimum of 33% of every ticket goes to charities and good causes across
0:37.0	Great Britain and beyond, with a staggering £1.1 billion raised so far.
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0:49.0	Draws, and the next winning postcode could be yours.
0:52.0	PPL managed lot trees and behalf of good causes, 18-plus conditions apply.
0:57.0	Play responsibly, not available in Northern Ireland.
1:00.0	Conspiracy theories are just theories about what could be a real conspiracy, and some of them are true.
1:06.0	A lot of them are true, so we should just stop treating it in a negative way and instead think of like the lab leak hypothesis as legitimate, just in case.
1:15.0	The moment you start censoring speech, people automatically think, why am I not being allowed to hear this?
1:21.0	I want to see this, I want to read it for myself.
1:23.0	Epstein died, and there were conspiracy theories about that he was killed.
1:27.0	I thought, nah, that's probably not the case.
1:29.0	And then somebody wrote me, emailed me from that prison.
1:32.0	He said, I used to work at that prison, and nothing works there.
1:35.0	It's a dump.
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