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325 - Wrestling with Trust, Propaganda, and Conspiracies, with Ami Palmer
325 - Wrestling with Trust, Propaganda, and Conspiracies, with Ami Palmer
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Length:
78 minutes
Released:
May 7, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Ami Palmer is a wrestler, judoka, and an adjunct professor of philosophy at Ohio Northern University. The topics he researches include how widespread conspiracism and science denialism affect democratic policy making. I was thrilled to have him on the podcast and I think it's a very important conversation! 00:51 - Introduction 02:17 - Wrestling, judo and philosophy 11:15 - Why the BJJ community is so prone to conspiracy theories 20:17 - When is it rational to defer to an expert, and how do you know who to defer to? 32:22 - How do people discern claims from different experts 34:53 - The Great Barrington declaration 38:48 - Commonly used propaganda tools and how to recognise them 48:34 - Brandolini's bullshit asymmetry principle 57:15 - Conspiracies in social media 1:03:19 - The university environment post Covid 11:09:44 - Difference between vaccine refusers and vaccine hesitants 1:11:28 - Training pods 1:16:47 - How to get in touch with Ami
Released:
May 7, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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