I'm curious, how is a person supposed to know what's true?

Yeah, that's the $64,000 question, right?

It's a process.

It's you never really arrive at any final conclusion.

It's just that you question everything

and just always remain open to the possibility

that you're wrong and try to keep becoming less wrong,

as we say.

Like you're never definitively correct.

It's more that we're just trying to minimize error

as much as possible. Here with the award-winning curiosity. I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today we're going to learn about scientific skepticism.

Every week we explore what we don't know because curiosity makes you smarter.

This is the Curiosity Podcast.

For some people, pseudoscience and conspiracy theories are kind of fun to talk about,

but others take things a little too far. And when they do, why can't

you convince them that a fact is a fact? Here to discuss, my guest this week is Dr.

Steve Novella, an academic neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine and one of America's favorite skeptics.

I'm here with Steve Novella. He is the founder of the New England Skeptical Society, the host of The Skeptics Guide to the Universe

podcast since May 2005, author of the neurological blog, as if he wasn't busy enough.

I think the most important title here is also a pen and paper

role-playing gamer. Occasionally. What's your poison right now?

I'm actually, my brother Jay and I are running a Star Wars campaign for some friends of ours,

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