#846 - Michael Shermer

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4.6 • 228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2016

⏱️ 177 minutes

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Michael Shermer is a science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Three two one.
0:02.0	one, boom, Michael Sherman is here, ladies and gentlemen, again, and we've been talking about
0:06.6	silly people for the past 15 minutes.
0:09.7	We just, we had to get warmed up.
0:11.6	The list is endless. We had to get warmed up with body doubles with
0:14.8	conspiracy.
0:15.8	Yeah, flat earthers.
0:17.8	Forests aren't real.
0:19.8	Is that what they're saying, Jamie, the flat earthers?
0:21.8	We're going to talk about the flat earthers for one
0:23.6	reason the reason why I wanted to bring this up is because I think there's a lot of folks
0:29.7	out there that are super gullible and I think they're being
0:32.9	I think they're being controlled by people who put together these it's one of two
0:37.4	options either they're being controlled by people who put together these
0:41.4	elaborate arguments for something that they don't believe
0:44.3	because they're just trying to make money off of YouTube views which is entirely possible
0:48.4	yeah and this needs to be thought of it really needs to be considered because YouTube videos can be extremely lucrative.
0:55.6	If you can get a YouTube video with millions of hits and a lot of these videos on all sorts of
1:00.2	different conspiracies and all sorts of different crazy things can
1:02.8	generate that kind of volume you're making real money.
1:05.8	Penny's on the dollar but if it's millions yes it starts becoming real money
1:09.8	and starts and if you do a bunch of them and you can you do them on a regular
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