Why Do We Believe In Unbelievable Things?
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Friday, June 20, 2014
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Michael Shermer speaks at TED.
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Part 4 of the TED Radio Hour episode Why We Lie.
About Michael Shermer's TEDTalk
Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things boils down to two of the brain's most basic, hard-wired survival skills.
About Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer is the founder and publisher of Skeptic Magazine. He writes a monthly column for Scientific American, and is an adjunct professor at Claremont Graduate University and Chapman University. He's the author of The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies—How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths.
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