On this episode of Skeptico,

The Power of Story.

You say to him, well, I gotta get me a real geek.

He says, ain't I doing okay.

You say like crap, you're doing okay.

You can't draw a real crowd faking a geek, you're through.

And you walk off.

All the while you're talking, he's thinking about sobering up,

getting the crawling shakes, screaming, terrors.

You give them time to think that over while you're talking.

Then you're throwing the Then you throw the chick.

You geek.

And how it may be being used against us.

This is exactly what the transhumanists are doing.

They're harnessing our informational predilections, shall we say, to try and tell a compelling story to push our species in directions. I do not think we should go.

That first clip was from Nightmare Alley. William Defoe still got it. And the second one was

from today's guest, Dr. Rob Williams, who you may remember, was on a few

weeks ago, but he's back to talk about his book, Beings Human, and about a lot of other stuff

that you won't relate to this intro until you really think about it. Welcome to Skeptico where we explore

controversial science and spirituality with leading researchers, thinkers, and their critics. I'm your

host Alex Scarey. And today we welcome back Dr. Rob Williams to Skeptico. A few weeks ago, if you recall, Rob was nice enough to

invite me on his show, Plan V TV, and I really, really enjoyed the conversation that he

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