Hello and welcome to Series Inquiries only this is episode 378 I'm your host Thomas Smith

and today we are speaking for the second time with Dr Ashley Scalaro, a professor of psychology

with two PhDs apparently wanted to make me feel extra bad for having zero PhDs no in neuroscience

and cognitive psychology and we're going to be speaking about conspiracy theories and I think

this will be part of a broader series this is sort of setting the table a bit we're getting our

beaks wet in terms of the psychological science behind conspiracy theories why people believe in

them why people act on them all kinds of different stuff I think this is maybe painfully the most

relevant subject matter that we could be looking at right now because of the state of our country

it really feels like we should be studying almost nothing else other than how do you deprogram people

today's episode is not necessarily about deprogramming we're starting with how they get program to

begin with and maybe later on we can look at deprogramming I think this is massively important

and I'm excited to learn more about this so let's get on over to the interview with Dr Ashley

Scalaro as always if you'd like an ad-free version of the show and bonus extras like the monthly

seriously awful movies last month was Armageddon god that was so fucking funny you gotta go check

that out if you didn't this month all guns spoil it I think we're gonna do Momento because

Dr Scalaro one and the same suggested that as one she'd like to do a little debunking of that's

gonna be a ton of fun patreon.com slash series pod ad free show monthly seriously alpha movies

and more oh by the way also if you're patron I put up the thread for the ask an astrophysicist

anything so that you can pose whatever questions you have about the universe whatever physics anything

really an article you saw a movie a show any whatever you want to know we'll see if Dr. Brian

Gillis can give you an answer I don't actually know I'm not the I'm not the expert I can't tell

you what he can't her can't answer but he is an astrophysicist and we can at least try to ask

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