Why We Believe In Conspiracy Theories with Michael Shermer
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- Опубликовано: 30 май 2024
- Why do rational people believe irrational things? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice break down media literacy, the psychology behind conspiracy theories, and how to combat our cognitive biases with author and founding publisher of Skeptic Magazine, Michael Shermer.
No one joins a cult thinking they’re wrong, so why does it happen? We talk about what it means to be a skeptic. Was 9/11 an inside job? Was the moon landing a hoax? Was the 2020 election rigged? Learn why popular conspiracy theories gained traction, what their fundamental problems are, and how to argue against them. Does the media make us more susceptible to conspiracies?
What cognitive biases stop intelligent people from making intelligent choices? Discover proportionality bias, confirmation bias, and hindsight bias. How do you know what to believe? If a conspiracy theory was a criminal trial, could you get enough evidence? What questions could we ask ourselves to avoid being biased? What would it take to change your mind?
Why do we often accept the supernatural but not real science? Why are there so many vaccine skeptics, but no antibiotics skeptics? Should internet gatekeepers censor misinformation? Does being more educated make you less susceptible to conspiracy? All that, plus, is there such a thing as being too skeptical?
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00:00 - Intro: Why do people believe conspiracy theories?
10:02 - Does the media aid conspiracy theories?
14:38 - Our cognitive biases
22:00 - How to break down a conspiracy
25:14 - Government Trust & Disinformation
29:15 - Can we avoid being biased?
37:40 - Pseudoscience & The Supernatural
42:55 - Should we censor misinformation?
45:58 - How much does education help?
49:19 - Psychology of admitting you’re wrong
52:02 - Can you be too skeptical? 
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We need to add a Critical Thinking class to the US education system. The class would focus on using the scientific method to test and validate information and evidence.
They use to have that class in one of my local colleges. That was 35+ years ago. I don’t know if any still do. It should be a class in junior high and on that, civics classes should be brought back too. IMO
Man, you SAID it !! For Real !!!!
Would that have helped my step-son with his parroting of all the crazy stuff out there? He believes the Clintons killed Jeffrey Epstein and the covid vaccine causes football injuries. I guess some people are beyond help. Sorry to say that but........
Republican efforts to destroy education in this country is coming to fruition...there is the conspiracy in your face.
But! But! They've "done their research"! We should be grateful to them for digging through the copious amounts of information (that agrees with their confirmation bias) and enlightening us. They are the critical thinkers! (according to them).
to be fair, people DO sometimes conspire.
however its important to have a solid logical and evidentiary framework on which you test your hypotheses and base your conclusions
oh ok. They only explained this in the video, but go ahead and write the comment too.
Nope. Everyone is good and were all fine.
@@chadd990 lol came to say the same thing.
So true, but a hypothesis is merely an educated guess. So...even a child can have one on familiar subject to them.
Your comment seems a hair irrelevant. They didn’t say that there is no such thing as a real conspiracy, or that people don’t conspire. They simply brought up and explained long form the last part of your comment. That you need substantial evidence to prove substantial claims.
Man, I really enjoyed this episode, I’m glad we’re getting more of these sit down casual style of talks nowadays, makes it much easier and more enjoyable to learn new things.
Check out my conspiracy and theories like the universe is sand and water
So true idk what it is but all throughout school with the exception of one teacher, and I'm meaning of the core 4 subjects, if im orated at then I tend not to learn but Neil and Chuck just sitting down and just talking and joking about these big brain concepts has taught me so much more about astrophysics, the world and the universe than 18/19 years in school did.
It's so much more approachable this way, rather than the usual - "Look at how smart I am and how much I know. Listen to my esoteric words to prove it. I hope your little plebeian brain can keep up" - type of educational video.
Don't expect perceived wise men to know everything about everything. Only talking about the ridiculous theories and not about the more substantial because it isn't on brand of their fame and should be taken no more seriously than comedic value.
These three actors are being so rude and come off as ignorant..not a good way to convince someone
Chucks ability to be comedic in the moment never ceases to amaze me.
I’m Not watching this to get
Chuck’s opinion.
He is an interruption imo
@@susanfrancis5471 Don't watch a Science program with a co host then. Further, don't watch one who's co host is exclusively a comedian, Chuck or otherwise.
@@_Lionsin I think Chuck is having a great balance between jokes and sharing actual thoughts he has on the subjects and voicing them, contributing greatly to the format.
@@susanfrancis5471 Guy is an unfunny hack and yes he just interrupts the topic.
He's great at getting in quickly in small windows
Chuck is such a great little addition to these conversations. He really does explain things well. He has some great points and questions. What an amazing school science teacher he would be
Little addition? Or addition?
"Conspiracies? You're a DIMBASS!" LOL!
The point about Elm Street was good.
People put extra significance on decisions and things in hind site.
And he's very intelligent in his own right. He plays the fool but he's a very smart guy.
he looks a bit orange in this video, he been eating with DT?!
1 part Learning, 1 part Laughing bonded with passion and love is StarTalk.
Great show….well put together….agree with You…..
It all starts getting ridiculous once chuck says...
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"Once you go black, you get killed by the royal family!"
@@xEvilRaptorx using the race card for a cheap joke. Telltale sign of a weak comedian
Do you all think real professors from a real USA university are conspiracy theorists? The TV won't tell you about this, but I don't know why? ruclips.net/video/LJPuWy9utss/видео.html
Check out my conspiracy theories like the universe is sand and water
I am pretty sure that Chuck will never reach to this comment but I need to say after a few years following ST, that this guy is way smarter than he looks! love his humor and how he articulate questions while bringing up facts.
I agree. He is likely very smart. Otherwise we would find himself out of place with the kind of guests that come on the show.
What does he look like?
@@ma1ex It's not what he looks like, but his demeanor. People are perceived to be more intellectual if they're calm, and speak in measured tones. Chuck is more hyperactive and makes a lot of jokes. Of course, that has nothing to do with his intelligence, but it does affect perception.
I hope he never reaches this comment. What about him doesnt look smart? and how can you gauge intelligence on looks? and what does smart look like?
Back handed compliment if I ever read one.
Thank you guys! I feel very flattered to be teased buy you guys! It made my day!
Min 29:35.
Lol did you mean flattered? Btw I'm attempting to say your name like Chuck too.
Hi Cicero!
Hi Cicero, you have a beautiful name😘
Flattened? 🤣
Great to hear that you're such a good sport about it! But could you change your comment back to "flattened"'? That was EPIC!
The Pine Street vs Elm Street part made me think of Bugs Bunny.
"I knew I should have taken that left at Alba-koiky."
I wish all of our current media talked like Chuck!
I am also fascinated by human biases?
One more thing programmers have to learn to think through them.
Great episode.
Getting your book tomorrow.
Real programmers just don't have them. Of course programmers these days aren't selected for that trait anymore, so maybe you're right.
👽👽👽Yeah I do UFO and alien research and I often use NASA, ESA photos so they cannot be debunked. I found alien artifacts like buildings, bases, 10km ships, statues and so much more. Is it real? Yeah, but will nasa ever admit it no. But I am world famous just search my name. 👽👽👽
@@radman8321 it’s ignorant to say that “real programmers” don’t have human cognitive bias…
@@wolfiemuse Back in the early 80s I spent several days being tested/assessed to see if I had the right kind of logical brain required to be a programmer. Spent the next 20 years programming and in my experience nearly all of the most competent programmers were not neuro typical. I'd go so far as to say that most of them were quite obviously on the autistic spectrum.
The industry changed and most "programmers" these days are combining the programming role with what used to be called Systems Analysis. Systems work requires a greater understanding of "people" and so the programmer who lived and breathed the machine was pushed into a smaller and smaller niche. Today's programmers rarely have to code the machine, they get to pick frameworks and select APIs. The really hard stuff has already been coded, by "real" programmers.
@@radman8321 None of that has anything to do with cognitive bias. Everyone is susceptible to them.
One of the best episodes. Anytime Michael Shermer comes on, its always has been a must listen.
When you I first started watching Startalk, I wondered why Neil would choose a comedian for his co-host, rather than a fellow scientist, given the context of the show. However, I must say that Chuck has repeatedly surprised and impressed me with his intellect, as demonstrated by some of his comments, which are often quite deep and truly profound! Of course, it doesn't hurt that he is routinely hilarious, as well! Thank you, gentlemen, for producing a podcast that is as entertaining as it is though-provoking; a balance which I'm sure cannot be easy to maintain!
Yeah, great comedic and profound responses.... like calling those who might be labeled conspiracy theorists, "idiots". It's funny how what some people are so impressed by, others are completely repulsed by. To each, his or her own, I suppose.
I totally agree..Chuck is the ying to it's yang..
Comedy is remedy and science is educational.. together, they keep me intrigued
Chuck boils it down to the basics, Michael expounds on it!
The problem is that people DO NOT see the patterns and the symbols and the connections. Most people are oblivious to it all and just go to work , have kids, and pay, pay , pay til they’re sick and dead. Then they have to pay to be buried into the ground!!
This is the type of Host I want in a show. Knowing your Guest and their works first before starting discussing things. Neil Degrasse opened my mind about many possibilities.
We can progress as humans so much if first we understood each other first and where we come from
I live in northern Ontario Canada Off Grid in the middle of forest for the last two years. I’m going back to live in society again shortly. And knowing the people im going to have to deal with because I’m a caring, loving person and try to be understanding and a teacher as well. You have help me expanding my techniques for compassion and understanding with hopes of changing minds with facts
This is an amazing episode! Thank you so much for all your insights! This should be required viewing! We desperately need more people to think rationally in this extremely irrational society we live in right now.
An amazing episode of portraying great ignorance and stupidity. I agree.
What a GREAT StarTalk episode. As a physician, (and having many family members with science or medical professions), I just watched in horror as swaths of Americans thought the Covid pandemic was a hoax, or not "real". Two points driven home were 1) severe deficiency of scientific reasoning and problem solving; 2) complete ignorance and/or amnesia for HISTORY - especially science and medical (epidemiological) history - from biblical times up through all of the 20th century. (Arguably, most of human 'history' was determined by diseases, malnutrition and famine. Think of scurvy killing half of all sea faring armies.)
Couldn't agree more! The irony about that is, most of these people wouldn't be able to 💩 on the efficacy of vaccines, if not for the efficacy of vaccines... Most of them would have likely died in childhood!
It isnt real you clown, real science has been hijacked and manipulated.
Government regulatory agencies and the medical industrial complex are rotten to the core and cannot be trusted. So you have ignorant people on one end that just believe and obey. On the other end you have people that deny all of it. Like always, the truth is somewhere in between
Agreed as A MLT . I saw a lot of humans saying that the pandemic was not real. While I was risking my life to save theirs. I'm fed up of living with fools.
@@macgonzo how do you feel about innate immunity and the efficacy of our natural immune response building antibodies
Thanks for yet another amazing episode.
There was some precious information about the causes of getting into conspiracy theories.
As Michael mentioned, it is a pretty complex and multifactorial issue.
And his take on psychological and political factors was quite brilliant.
If I just may, I will add another one which is missing from the list and that is about social reasons.
Conspiracy theorists tend to be marginalized and isolated by their friends and family because of their ideas, if they're not already isolated to begin with.
The internet changed everything, and not only because it gave people ways to confirm their theories, but also because it allowed them to reach to people who share the same beliefs, find a sense of belonging to a community when others might reject them.
So among the costs of changing their minds and their whole belief system, cutting themselves off from their community might very well be the most expensive.
Yes. I love your explanations and insights of why people believe in conspiracy theories. Well done.
I've always said that those who believe in conspiracy theories don't think critically and aren't showing the intelligence I'm sure they have. I left politics a long time ago because everwhere you look, there is some kind of ridiculous conspiracy theory. If you're going to be in politics or be a politician, you can at least think rationally and objectively about things instead of through the lens of biases, religion, and feelings. Those only cause problems as we have seen.
It's human nature to want to find someone or something to blame for problems but it doesn't make it logical.
Love Michael Shermers description of true scientific reasoning and how it’s not trying to argue from authority.
What a great episode start to finish :))
Definitely worth at least one rewatch.
I still think Neil hit the nail on the head. Aliens look at earth and say yeahhhh there’s no intelligent life on that planet.
Aliens put up a Rest Area Closed sign on the Dark Side of the Moon
Bwahahahahahahhaaa @@Tree-thingz
Your opinion don't talk about yourself like that
We haven't developed a warp drive yet.
The blue gives us up. Earth's always (since water) been a magnet for ETs.
Can't be out of time! Great show I wish it could go on for another hour, already followed Michael on Twitter and excited for the next episode that comes across my feed ✌️🕊️🙌
And most conspiracies are rooted in some type of truth no matter how small it's like the game of telephone you pass the story down so many generations and it gets severely altered
Thanks, Doc... Your conversations are informative, based in common sense and pov's logically argued and light-hearted intellect which makes your show so much fun. Thank you! Nice to see Chuck back, too!
Check out my conspiracy and there is like the universe is sand and water
Intelligence should be graded on the "bell" curve because many people lost their clappers and are simply "dumb" bells - LOL
You gotta love this left to Right one of the worlds leading physicist a great comedian and and a full time sceptic what more do want
Chuck's clapbacks are on point!
One of the best episodes, Chuck is solid a gold statue that sprouted wings and soared above us all like a eagle, whole thing knowledgeable and got a greatly needed laugh 💯🍻✌️
is that you Chuck lmao
I agree 100% just a cool episode. 💫💥💫
You guys are the best 😂❤🎉
Happy to see Chuck great episode 👍🏽
This was a great episode like many others. Always educative.
As someone who didn't believe in conspiracies, I can say/ ask: when the facts are there how can you deny it?!
1+1 will always = 2.
Who would want to believe the people we choose to trust conspire against the people?!
The question isn't did "they", the question is why would "they"?! Not every conspiracy is true but not every conspiracy is false.
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Love Star Talk by the way!!! Thanks for you guys being you🙏
I'm with Chuck, this one was really good!
The Internet took over where the grocery store tabloids left off a few years ago.... eg: the Nation Enquirer which my father read religiously
My favorite tabloid was “Weekly World News”! lol
The "hot sheets" from men in black.....
There's something very wrong with this country and our leaders keep making terrible descisions that make it even worse
Hi Gentlemen. I do enjoy listening to to your facts and show. I do wish your guest would look into a case of a lady that worked at Tennessee driver license office in Memphis. That had issued drivers license to some of the 911 hijacker’s. She was arrested after the month of 911. Sorry I don’t have dates. It’s been awhile since. But anyway my only concern is I am a Truck driver of many years and I was on my way back to Memphis on Hwy 78 20 miles from Memphis Tn. At around 1 am at the time it was only a two lane road so all traffic was stopped. Well I found that the lady that was arrested was released from Jail at midnight was the lady in a car that had just burned up on a car. Someone wanted her dead for some reason. But anyway thanks for listening this really did happen. Love the show👍
Chuck summed it up perfectly in the first minute.
Great session as always! 🎉
Isn’t that what peer reviewed research is for? To try to poke holes in someone’s thesis and data?
Love you guys!!
Peer review is worthless if censorship exists.
Just for clarification, do you mean censored (withheld from the public top secret ) experiments ?
Or redacted from all other researchers completely.
If the latter then yes of course you can’t reconstruct an experiment without all the premises being proven.
That would be like trying to make a special dish without knowing the defining ingredients .
@@analogalien651 Both. Good luck getting money to perform research that bucks the narrative. Covid made that very clear.
@@derp8575 Which narrative are you referring to.? Who is “ they”?
What proposal did you use to apply for a grant to research it? Are you a pathologist?
@@analogalien651 Where's "they" in my comment?
No, I am not a pathologist. However there are pathologists speaking out. Will you listen to their claims? Of course not. You and your ilk only listen to mainstream narratives.
Dang, I was super invested in this episode. I've never thought too much about conspiracies and why people have them outside of the idea that it went against what you wanted. This really opened my mind to the subject!
Yeah it's ALWAYS a "Lone Nut" aint it ?
Cuz there's NO way it could be anything else...
Nothin' to see here folks, Nothin' to see ^_^
Lol the worst thing that ever happened was slavery but go off😂
It’s not that we believe in conspiracy theories, it’s that conspiracy theories believe in us.
I love how he casually mentions MK Ultra and UFO's as being real...but forgets they were considered conspiracy theories .
Do you all think real professors from a real USA university are conspiracy theorists? The TV won't tell you about this, but I don't know why? ruclips.net/video/LJPuWy9utss/видео.html
I watched Citizen Kane a year before the 2020 election. The prescience of Orson Welles is utterly alien. 80 years ahead of his time, EASILY. Man was 25 when he made Citizen Kane
Kane was just a great story for the very reason that it was about a reoccurring human problem. That seems ahead of its time when the problem comes back around, as it will, but is actually just acknowledging the very old and tiresome aspects of society. I do note that Hearst's Castle continues to rake in some cash from tourists who come away impressed with him. So it goes.
As an actual blacksmith I can confirm that steel starts to soften before it's even glowing, at 800°F it starts to glow.
Why are these not LONGER!!!
I can't wait for the thumbnail to be used as a reaction image on Twitter.
What a great episode! Keep them coming!
One of the topics, with one of the few guests, where Chuck's interjections and presence doesn't subtract from the experience!! He's appropriate here with Shermer!
Great episode. I feel like we need more videos on this topic especially these days.
1:00 minute in, and that's all we need to hear. Tell em' Chuck!
So inspiring and mind opening, we want an encore please!!! Thank You to you 3!
I love how they can talk about my side bias while displaying my side bias lol
I understand what they are talking about .... BUT .... Its exceedingly hard to dismiss certain "conspiracies".
Some I would just consider to be alternative hypothesis. And if sufficient information is given to support, then they are equally likely to be true.
Otherwise we would easily believe all propaganda, all official government narratives, and all historical rewrites, et c.
If you can believe in an invisible sky daddy, then your brain is simple/indoctrinated and it can be led to believe anything else.
Like that one lady who thinks she can scare away hurricanes with a stick
More like religioun and the way it taught!
@@DayonBledsoe2000Jesus is watching your blaspheming
Careful there, you sound like one of those anti-theists, who claim that their gnostic form of atheism is 'rational'. You fail to realize that you have the same problem as your Christian foes, perhaps displaying inconvenient similarities.
@@denny414Are you being ironic right now or did you not comprehend the discussion they were having?
This would be a lot more enjoyable if they’d actually let their guests finish their thoughts and answering questions, instead of constantly interrupting them.
Thank you so much for this excellent discussion. I, along with so many others are thankful for such intelligent thinking. I will share this with as many as possible.
Great guest!
Absolutely brilliant show!
It is, and it makes me wonder why people call me a conspiracy theorist? 🤔
I had heard talks by Michael and of Course Neil plenty of time, but I love the adition of Chuck to this
Loved this episode! Keep it up!
Awesome episode. 💫💥💫
I think people love conspiracies because they are usually more interesting than the real explanation, add on top that it might side with their perspective or views of the world.
My brother in law pointed out to me that the most boring answer is usually the right one.
And when you counter their argument you need to be really delicately careful and not step on eggshells? This sounds like more snowflake sensitivity than I thought.
You can add to that people needs to be special, to see and understand people that the "sheep" won't, be smarter than anyone else, not all people have that need, but some those
But in many cases it is not more interesting. Like how is aliens magically building the pyramids more interesting than ancient humans building them with primitive tools? It is just a fantasy, nobody knows which aliens; how they did it, why they did it. But with humans you can find all kinds of information, like their tools, their society, the religion, etc. any why will lead you down a lifetime of information. With conspiracies every why leads to “well why not?” and that is the end of it.
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Some CD changers/players had a shuffle feature. The songs were shuffled like a deck of cards. Then the songs played back in the new, shuffled order. People (including me) thought the random feature was the same thing as the shuffle feature. IMO, a lot of that had to do with the two features using a very similar symbol.
Yeah, the correct way to discover the rule at 33:31 is to also go into descending numbers. 9, 8, 7. I actually saw the Veratasity channel do a video on this, and one guy out of maybe half a dozen actually figured it out.
The last question was by far the most important one. A longer discussion on that topic would be nice to hear. I do believe that the range between (believing in science and institutions) and nihilism is a bit broader than shermer seems to think. But what do i know? I am probably in the lower scale of the bottom 50% and concidered by many (probably even less intelligent) as a conspiracy theorist.
Get hard, cold, scientific based facts about the topic your concerned with. Get them yourself from highly respected sources. Do this, and your tendency for conspiracies will start to go away
I’ve always thought many of us ‘take sides’ on many things like Nationality, Race, Politics, Religion . . . . and of course Sports Teams.
Sadly, some take some of the above to extremes, though certain bodies kick off counter argument, to Stir internal conflict in ‘other side’
Intriguing, I always knew there was more to life and i have also been looking for a way to find not only protection but a way to be influential to the human society, wish to do more and give more than i am doing now, always feel like i was born for something greater. .
oh well you can achieve that by being a part of the illuminatus brotherhood, i know it sounds like a mystery but there are ways you can actually get in contact with them
@@jamesbennett3843 hi, isn't the brotherhood a myth??
@@haynesatteh4463 Well it is not and you can't actually expect it to be open to everyone, but if you want to know more you can look up ANTHONY MARK SZYMON online you will find something interesting.
@@jamesbennett3843 oh really, i just saw his website, interesting.i will leave him a message.
So excited to watch. 💖
Looping this one all day long at work until it all sinks in. Great post!
Great content guys. Always a good time learning and laughing. thumbs up.
Fun side note: not all atheists are skeptics, 20% believe in some form of supernatural phenomenon (pew research poll).
Awesome episode!
the best episode, informative & humerous! Thanks Mr. Shermer.
Chuck...that imitation of the tangerine totalitarian was freaking AWESOME!
What's the difference between conspiracy theories and the truth?
About 6 months.
I love how discussions such as these boil down to truth versus consensus.
Fascinating convo guys
It is refreshing to have you 3 saying these things because there is so so so much crazy things in the metaverse. It's definitely majority crazy
This show is just amazing
Conspiracy theories keep humans engaged, advancing, and honest. Demonizing those who ponder about them is more dangerous than allowing people to think about them and discuss them.
This has got to be my favourite episode of all time!
Why can’t I push the like button 10 times. This truly was a great episode! Thank you
100% with Chuck on this one.
"Rosebud." Reply if you know why I placed this "quote" on here.
Another great episode guys!!! I love to back and forth of Neil and Chuck! Great chemistry and Neil makes it easy to understand even the hardest of questions or topics!
This needs a sequel
Excellent show, please continue.!
Chuck hit the nail on the head. Sometimes if you hear these conspiracies and try to forget some of the facts you already know. The conspiracies make sense. But then you realize you know the facts and realize how some people could indeed fall for some of these conspiracies
Yes, like the FBI pushing a Russia collusion hoax for 2 years, or interfering in elections via Twitter and censorship, or calling Hunter's laptop Russian b.s.
The way DemonRATs dismiss proven facts is 🤣😂😆😂😆
Which Conspiracy Theories Do You Believe?
UFO's are advanced aquatic aliens that have evolved over millions of years whilst being protected from all extinction level events in earths history
Dare I say it, Covid and elections.
An asteroid is on a collision course and nasa and the government knows about it.
@@Riclmnopp i agree
9/11 I think was an inside job
The Jesus vs. Darwin debate seems to me a very U.S. one. My father is a devout christian, but he would never claim Charles Darwin was nonsense. In fact, he is very much into phylogenesis, and when I was young, he was often explaining to me which birds are more closely related to each other than to other birds, or that the rock hyrax belongs into the same group as the elephants, and not to the hares.
Great episode! Very informative, funny and entertaining!
I think the confusion between correlation and causation also has a lot to do with it. For example, the people who think 5G towers cause covid will point to maps showing that the earliest covid outbreaks were in areas with the greatest number of 5G towers, which is true. But the 5G didn't cause the outbreak. Instead, it was because those are also the areas with the highest population density; therefore it is natural that the towers would be built there in greater numbers, and also that disease spreads faster there. John Oliver did a great video a while back where he pointed out that there's also a correlation between covid outbreaks and number of Domino's Pizza locations-- because there are also more pizza restaurants where there are more people.
Heh. I had an emergency appendectomy after eating Domino's once. For a long time I believed that their pizza caused it. Stopped believing due to insufficient evidence. How hard is that for some folk to do,unless it's part of their identity and lifestyle?
The NIH published a study that confirmed that 5G microwave radiation disrupts the negative charge that naturally occurs between red blood cells to prevent them from clotting unnecessarily .
Perfect episode Neil! Way to go my friend!
thx 2 chuck
Truly enjoyed this segment.
I feel the need to correct you about Blacksmiths - they don't deal with horse shoes, Farriers do. Both work with steel, so the principal is right, of course ☺️
My boyfriend is a traditional Blacksmith, and would be cringing at the reference.
Steel only needs around 300°C to start to be easily bendable. The pressure from the building and force of the impact would easily bend the steel girders, which would weaken/break the carbon bonds. The resulting fires would have been more than enough to heat the steel to bend it completely out of shape, at that point one person could have moved it by hand.
Great topic!!!! I love this guest, and I really love StarTalk.
2:28 I think that’s the hardest I’ve ever laughed during Star Talk.
As soon as Chuck is gone I will subscribe to this channel
As far as no evidence for a theory goes...until it is investigated there can be no evidence.
Was there no evidence of planes crashing into the building without an investigation? There can be evidence without an investigation.
Because we are being lied to every day by people we are supposed to trust. This video proves this.
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Hilarious how they start with "half are below..." basically joking 50% of the human population is dumb and I bet everyone watching this is laughing and saying haha yeah I'm part of the "other" 50% not considering they are, in fact, one of the dumb ones 🤣🤣 loved this vod, super entertaining and interesting
No u
Peolpe tell me i m smart but. I m smart enought to know im not smart
You can be below the average intelligence but still be a rational minded thinker 😜
A recent mind blower for me is that intelligence in the human race is not an even bell curve, It is a RIGHT WEIGHTED bell curve, meaning most humans are in fact, dumb. So if this were a lottery, you'd win money betting that you (we) were the dumb one.
@@funkyd04 that sounds correct based on my anecdotal experience 😅 but where did you hear that from? Just curious
Michael Shermer is indeed the Patron Saint of Skeptics !
My favorite part about conspiracy theories is that you can add anything to the conspiracy as soon as it does not support your version.
The most important part of this whole thing was said at the beginning thou: "I am willing to change my mind if the evidence changes".
Initially, I saw the phrase “conspiracy theories” in the title and was disappointed. The vast majority of the crazy beliefs and fabrications of the conspiracy mongers do not qualify as a “theory”. Further discussion of what constitutes a valid theory would have been helpful, as the issue was not confronted directly.