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🗓️ 20 April 2022
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Today I'm speaking with Dr. Christopher Kavanagh, who is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Cognitive & Evolutionary Anthropology. Chris is also the cohost of the Decoding the Gurus Podcast. We talk about the effect that internet gurus and thought leaders have on public perception of science and politics.
Chris’ research focuses broadly on collective rituals and their impact on social identity and group orientated behaviors, using a combination of field and lab based experiments, online surveys, and traditional ethnographic methods.
Check out the Decoding the Gurus podcast: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/
Follow Chris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/c_kavanagh
Learn more about Chris' work: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-chris-kavanagh
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0:00.0 | Hey everybody, fantastic episode for you. Got another episode about gurus. I love, you know, |
0:09.6 | people that debunk a lot of the misinformation going on out there, especially now that |
0:18.9 | conspiracy peddling is just a |
0:22.8 | beeline right to fame these days in a in a world where everything is is determined by |
0:33.4 | clickbait, YouTube numbers and attention grabbing, headlines and everything. And love this subject |
0:43.0 | matter. I love it as someone that you know has been has had a science podcast for eight years |
0:52.9 | and understands like frankly how boring half of the data analysis is and things to see people |
1:04.2 | try to sound like sciencey to people that aren't familiar with how science actually works to |
1:12.6 | cobble together conspiracies for attention and take advantage of of a pander to people's intuitions |
1:22.1 | for people who want to sound like they're just first premise |
1:27.8 | stone or teenage black light conspiracy ideas are are actually like ground breaking ideas like |
1:38.1 | oh oh my gosh you mean I shouldn't trust the the government poor I had never thought of that |
1:47.5 | here everyone was going around trusting the government and then |
1:54.7 | neo came in and told me not to trust the government I realized oh my gosh I should |
2:00.4 | trust in government I never even thought about that before and they presented like this is |
2:07.6 | ground breaking cutting-edge ideas and then and then pander to people that want to think they're |
2:15.0 | smart for believing a bunch of like anti-backed stuff in nonsense like that so I recorded a bunch |
2:21.6 | of these earlier in the year and then I said you know what Shane he don't need to like dwell on |
2:29.2 | this too much space these episodes out a bunch bank this for a little bit and you crane fire it up |
2:36.7 | and and all the conspiracy people jumped over to there like oh see the cobble it's not getting |
2:45.5 | the same attention so now they've made up another short raid of things for attention grab no that's |
2:51.4 | you that's that's you Russell brand or whichever JP series or whichever person that's you jumping |
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