Michael Shermer: The Conspiratorial Mind

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:

Richard Hanania: Why Activists Control the World, Groomerism as Right-Wing Wokeness, and the Libertarian Machine

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