Dr. Michael Shermer is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, host of the podcast "The Michael Shermer Show," and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University. He is the author of several books, the most recent of which is "Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational." https://michaelshermer.com/
The Russians had, you know, so 1945 was Hiroshima and 1949 the Russians stole our secrets.
90 to 95 percent of all sightings have perfectly normal explanations.
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But, I mean, again, how do these systems really work?
You know, so this is my kind of conspiracy detection kit.
You know, the grander the conspiracy theory, the less likely it is to be true.
Like, say, Volkswagen cheating the emission standards in Europe.
You know, that's a very specific conspiracy theory.
It turned out to be true.
They really did do that.
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