Conspiracy Expert: How to Spot a True Conspiracy Theory - Michael Shermer

Michael Shermer is an American science writer, historian of
science, executive director of The Skeptics Society, and founding
publisher of Skeptic magazine, a publication focussed on
investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. He is the
author of over a dozen books, the most recent of which is
‘Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational.’ You can find
Michael's book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1421444453/ 
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Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis
Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free
speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential
advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists,
controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.
00:00 Intro  01:16 Michael Shermer’s Background 03:21 The
Information Era’s Impact on Conspiracies 10:06 Big Tech Speech
Censorship 16:40 When Should a Media Platform Censor Someone? 
19:27 Sponsor Message: Athletic Greens 20:58 The Twitter Files
28:33 Have We Become More Conspiratorial? 36:51 Epstein’s Island
& Flight Logs 42:33 The Great Reset 48:11 The Conspiracy
Theorist Demographic 55:52 Conspiracy & Victimhood 1:00:54
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