You Are Not So Smart podcast 016: Conspiracy Theories

Sometimes conspiracies do happen. But at the point where you’re imagining vast conspiracies behind damn near everything, conspiracies that involve casts of hundreds if not thousands, and have decided that any evidence debunking the conspiracy must (by definition) be part of the conspiracy … well, there’s a problem.

It’s important to have a healthy sense of cynicism. But the emphasis is on the “healthy”.