In our third episode, we got some time with Mark Changizi, cognitive theoretician and Co-Founder of a new institute, FreeX.group, for free speech and free expression. Mark has been an outspoken critic of lockdowns and mask mandates since early 2020. He brings decades of cognitive research and theory to bear on the mass hysteria around a real underlying infectious disease. Not such a big fan of "conspiracy theorizing," Mark proposes that a lot of what is going on can be better explained by "emergent social dynamics," which he illustrates in the second half.   

Mark's books include The Brain from 25,000 Feet; The Vision Revolution: How the Latest Research Overturns Everything We Thought We Knew About Human Vision and Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man; and Humans 3.0. He studied at CalTech, RPI and Duke University. We highly recommend his prolific social quips and short "Science Moments" on Twitter (@markchangizi), Facebook and here on YT, ...at least for the moment :-)