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The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 13 November 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to expert skeptic Michael Shermer about his new book “Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational”; how he detects political media bias when he reads the news; what he thinks the most objective news source is; why even rational people believe conspiracy theories; how the CDC and Dr. Anthony Fauci lost the trust of the American people; how online conspiracy theories can spread exponentially faster than ever before; why online censorship of misinformation will always backfire; the simple test you can use to disprove most conspiracy theories; whether the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story counts as a conspiracy; and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Dave Rubin, and joining me today is the publisher of Skeptic Magazine, a presidential
0:12.2	fellow at Chapman University, the host of the Michael Shermer Show, an author of the
0:17.5	new book, I've got it right here in my hand, Conspiracy, Why the Rational, Believe the
0:22.8	Irrational, Michael Shermer.
0:25.0	Welcome back to the Rubin Report.
0:26.0	All right, nice to see you, Dave.
0:27.0	Nice to be back.
0:28.0	It's good to see you, my friend.
0:29.0	Now, before I do anything else here, you have one of the largest stacks of books I've
0:33.7	ever seen behind you.
0:35.0	Is this some kind of ploy, like if there's an earthquake or something, books crash on you,
0:40.6	Clip Goes Viral?
0:41.6	It's very clever, very clever.
0:43.1	I'm killed by a conspiracy.
0:46.1	By a plethora of conspiracies, yes.
0:48.4	It's crushed by your own conspiracy book.
0:51.0	That would be odd.
0:52.6	It is good to see you, my friend.
0:54.6	We did about 30 seconds before we started recording here, but you have been on this show
0:58.7	probably a dozen times in one incarnation or another.
1:04.5	You also have written 400 billion books.
1:07.7	I did the math on that.
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