Today we've got another listener feedback episode, and one reason I do these kind of often

is that the feedback I feature shows some pretty typical ways to think about science

that are broken.

Scientists are all part of a conspiracy to reject all new knowledge.

We shouldn't try to falsify new theories, but instead find ways to consider them true

despite evidence to the contrary, and so on.

It's coming up next, Unskeptoid.

Hey everyone, Brian here.

A quick favor.

We're conducting an audience survey.

We'd be really grateful if you could take just a few minutes and answer our survey.

This is the kind of thing that's sort of an engineering and marketing necessity to make

the whole free podcast ecosystem flourish, so please check it out.

Also surveys are fun.

You get to talk about yourself.

Please visit survey.prx.org-skeptoid to take the survey today.

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Thanks.

A lot of common misconceptions about how science is done and how knowledge is advanced.

Often when I have a conversation with someone they'll express faulty logic, such as ghost

or aliens, must be real because there wasn't anomaly, or I know something must be true

because it happened to me or to a friend, or just having a fundamental misunderstanding

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