Do we have a responsibility to form, maintain and promote rational, evidence-based views? If so, how do we go about doing that without being really annoying?

Joined by new guest, Dan, in this episode we consider what qualifies as a conspiracy theory, why people are drawn to believe in such theories and ask just how similar are they to religion? In doing so, we touch on the history of these kinds of movements and explore some of the reasoning used to justify belief in them.  We may well revisit this topic in the future.

An article written by Connor on scepticism and "open mindedness": https://twobeersuntilphronesis.weebly.com/are-sceptics-close-minded.html

And our series 1 pseudoscience podcast: https://youtu.be/ibNdSR_X000

A look at a modern day conspiracy theory: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-42195511

Was Heidegger anti-Semitic? Intro to the debate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger_and_Nazism#Was_Heidegger_anti-Semitic?

The Personality Test we talk about in our awful tangent: https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

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Edited by Connor.