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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas — 333 | Gordon Pennycook on Unthinkingness, Conspiracies, and What to Do About Them
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333 | Gordon Pennycook on Unthinkingness, Conspiracies, and What to Do About Them

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 333

Why are people wrong all the time, anyway? Is it because we human beings are too good at being irrational, using our biases and motivated reasoning to convince ourselves of something that isn't quite accurate? Or is it something different -- unmotivated reasoning, or "unthinkingness," an unwillingness to do the…

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