Transcript Now Available: The Lure of Conspiratorial Thinking | The Atlas Society
Why do otherwise rational, intelligent people fall for conspiracy theories—and how can we tell the real ones from the truly irrational? In Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational, Michael Shermer presents an overarching review of conspiracy theories―who believes them and why, which ones are real, and what we should do about them. Returning to Objectively Speaking, Shermer is no stranger to The Atlas Society, having joined us previously to discuss his book Giving the Devil His Due, a