Michael Shermer: Baloney Detection Kit
The first video from RDF TV! With a sea of information coming at us from all directions, how do we sift out the misinformation and bogus claims, and get to the truth? Michael Shermer of...
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[mellow music] Michael Shermer: When we're growing up, we tend to be pretty credulous. We just believe almost anything that people tell us, especially authorities and adults and textbooks and politicians and television and youtube, and the internet. I mean, there's just this sort of sea of information coming at us. And how can you tell the difference between, you know, it's right or it's wrong? You know, how do you know? People believe weird things because our brains are wired up to find meaningful patterns. You think you see the face in the cloud or the face on Mars or the Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich or on the side of a window. Many patterns are real, and it's good to know what those patterns are, and that's call...
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[mellow music] Michael Shermer: When we're growing up, we tend to be pretty credulous. We just believe almost anything that people tell us, especially authorities and adults and textbooks and politicians and television and youtube, and the internet. I mean, there's just this sort of sea of information coming at us. And how can you tell the difference between, you know, it's right or it's wrong? You know, how do you know? People believe weird things because our brains are wired up to find meaningful patterns. You think you see the face in the cloud or the face on Mars or the Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich or on the side of a window. Many patterns are real, and it's good to know what those patterns are, and that's call...
