One of the most important tools to detectives is a heuristic known as Occam's Razor. But you must wield it carefully or you end up hurting the wrong people.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

103: What is Occam's Razor?

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When a new serial killer is caught, police have the tendency to try to blame them for every other murder in the vicinity. Why is it easier for us to believe in one Boogeyman rather than several? 
Covered topics: Sam Little, Arie Kruglanski, Donna Webster, Edward Wayne Edwards, Rex Heuermann, Stoicism, Marcus Aurelius
Further Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism https://www.orionphilosophy.com/stoic-blog/4-stoic-life-lessons-to-manage-fear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Edwards_(serial_killer) https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2016/01/26/avery-case-great-falls-ties/79376778/ https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/why-we-need-answers https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/us/btk-daughter-dennis-rader-kerri-rawson.html https://clevelandmagazine.com/in-the-cle/the-read/articles/in-the-shadows https://www.cleveland19.com/2019/10/11/akron-mother-murdered-was-victim-serial-killer-samuel-little/ https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/05/29/texas-ranger-serial-killer-samuel-little https://www.thecut.com/2018/12/how-serial-killer-samuel-little-was-caught.html https://www.oxygen.com/catching-a-serial-killer-sam-little/crime-news/worst-serial-killer-history-samuel-little-confessions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Little https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/samuel-little-most-prolific-serial-killer-in-us-history-100619 https://www.dps.texas.gov/coldCase/Home/Details/197 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

606: The Boogeyman Effect

Why are some drugs illegal and others are not? Learn the sordid history of the War on Drugs and why it doesn't work.
Covered topics: Allen Russell, Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914, War on Drugs, Magic mushrooms, John Stuart Mill, Rick Doblin
Further Reading: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/pie2023_drugs.html https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2023.html https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-0e463c390bedc7f6b25fb7e54b955b74 https://atlantablackstar.com/2022/07/03/the-travesty-of-it-all-court-upholds-mississippi-mans-life-sentence-for-1-5-ounce-of-marijuana-possession-and-his-case-is-not-an-anomaly/ https://lawliberty.org/the-simple-truth-about-j-s-mills-simple-truth/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Liberty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs https://www.aclu.org/report/report-war-marijuana-black-and-white https://www.cato.org/commentary/us-prisons-thriving-jim-crow-marijuana-arrests# https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWrbUwNGoWc https://fee.org/articles/how-15-ounces-of-marijuana-landed-this-man-a-life-long-prison-sentence/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haT4FrOYPtk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Truth_and_Lies_in_a_Nonmoral_Sense Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

605: Why Are Drugs Illegal?

What causes an innocent person to confess to a crime they didn't commit? Learn how prosecutors use false confessions to inflate their victories.
Covered topics: confessions, Stephanie Crowe, the Reid technique, Great Fire of London, John Mark Karr, Brendan Dassey, Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense, Kevin Young
Further Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Stephanie_Crowe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_confession https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_technique https://www.injusticeanywhere.net/exonerated-michael-crowe/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_JonBen%C3%A9t_Ramsey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiwi6PBUPO8 https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/03/26/nietzsche-on-truth-and-lies-in-a-nonmoral-sense/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9ZeaaWX79c Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

604: Why Do Innocent People Confess to Murders They Did Not Commit?

A new theory on consciousness may explain why psychopaths hear voices telling them to kill.
Covered topics: Son of Sam, the bicameral mind, Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Jared Lee Loughner, Herbert Mullin 
Further Reading: https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/roger-sperrys-split-brain-experiments-1959-1968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F30Jykk8z0E https://www.forensicscolleges.com/blog/resources/dangerous-minds-criminal-mental-illness https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/evidence-and-research/learn-more-about/3627 https://www.ranker.com/list/people-driven-insane-by-voices-in-their-heads/jacob-shelton https://news.stanford.edu/2014/07/16/voices-culture-luhrmann-071614/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Jaynes http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/psyc%20405/serial%20killers/berkowitz,%20david.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berkowitz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qU1sDBU9Cs https://nypost.com/2016/07/17/i-survived-son-of-sams-murder-spree/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y50nsmUVeVU Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

103: What is Occam's Razor?

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