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Podcast: The Jordan Harbinger Show
Episode: 359: Justin Ramsdell | How to Detect and Disarm Pseudoscience
Description: Justin Ramsdell is a clinical psychologist, an expert witness, an assistant professor of forensic psychology at George Mason University, and a veteran pseudoscience detector.
What We Discuss with Justin Ramsdell:
Why stressed brains don't make great decisions (especially when there's no light visible at the end of the tunnel to indicate that there is an end).
How pseudoscience preys on our cognitive biases to give us the answers we want with the scantest of unprovable "evidence."
Why watching YouTube videos and ranting in Reddit threads doesn't count as "research" in the same way that work done...