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Podcast: Life Elsewhere
Episode: Conspiracy. Robert Forster. RIP Jerry Lee
Description: Michael Shermer - Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational
Nothing happens by accident, everything is connected, and there are no coincidences: that is the essence of conspiratorial thinking. Long a fringe part of the American political landscape, conspiracy theories are now mainstream: 147 members of Congress voted in favor of objections to the 2020 presidential election based on an unproven theory about a rigged electoral process promoted by the mysterious group QAnon. But this is only the latest example in a long history of ideas that include the satanic panics of the 1980s, the New World Order and V...