Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine and the author of many books, including Why People Believe Weird Things, the Moral Arc, and most recently, Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational.

Conspiracy:https://www.amazon.ca/Conspiracy-Why-Rational-Believe-Irrational/dp/1421444453

Michael on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/michaelshermer

Richard Hanania Interview:

Jon Askonas: Reality is Just a Game Now

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-now

0:00 History

6:30 Conspiracy Theories

24:00 Religious Sects

41:00 Evolutionary Adaptation

57:30 Social Media Algorithms

1:13:30 Sex Differences

1:17:00 Trump

1:31:00 Pandemics

1:36:00 Deep State

1:51:00 Lab Leak

1:59:00 The Intellectual Dark Web

2:10:00 Academia

2:28:00 Chaos and Order

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