If you're a long time listener to Skeptoid, you know that I believe in the importance of

people learning how the world really works, learning how to tell fact from fiction.

I also believe that it's doomed to fail because reality attracts so much less attention

and money than does sensationalism.

In this episode, I'm going to present the results of a survey when I ask to all of you

for your thoughts on that same question.

Making skepticism commercial is coming up next on Skeptoid.

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Your thoughts on making skepticism commercial?

Perhaps the biggest reason that woo and pseudoscience are so much more popular than skepticism

in the marketplace is that that's where people direct their money.

People want magically easy solutions to problems more than they want realistic ones.

And people want sensational news more than they want true news.

And so we see worthless fad products flooding the stores and television networks swamped

with garbage, faux documentaries and paranormalism.

What can we do about this?

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