How To Be A Skeptic, Part Two: Friends and Family

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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We've all been there - you're at a gathering of friends or family, when someone starts to go off the rails, expounding a strange series of unfounded conspiracies (or worse). How do you connect with this person, and help guide them away from the cognitive brink toward the world of critical thought? In the second part of this two-series, the guys explore the tricky process of navigating Conspiracy Realism without judgement or condescension.

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