s most recent book is giving the devil his due. Came out in 2020. What are you trying to accomplish . A i am pretty much a free speech fundamentalist. You would want the same thing when your opinions are not being accepted. The larger problem nobody knows the truth about everything. Its dangerous because you are going to rarely hear something that goes against your beliefs so you have to kind of go out of your way to overcome this bias and reasoning and collection rather than what might not be true and youou have to do that y talking to people different from you. So the examples should pick up the New York Times once in a while and force yourself to read some of those. If youre a fox news fan, msnbc or cnn just to see what the other side is saying. So the latest issue on abortions. We better tell the readers why do they believe that so i conditioned this article by a prolife component and she had written a bookoo about it. Thats eyeopening. You couldd still disagree. As john stuart mil
Well, wed like to welcome back to book tv. Michael shermer, his most recent book is the devil his due came out in 2020. Michael shermer what are you trying to accomplish in giving the devil his due . Well, this is my defense of free speech. Im pretty much a free speech fundamentalist. The devil is whoever you dont agree with or disagrees with, you or whose ideas you dont like. Thats the devil. And he should be given his due because you would want the same thing when youre opinions are not accepted or you are the outcast and the larger problem is that none of us are omniscient. Nobody knows the truth about everything or much of anything. So the only way to find out if youve gone off the rails is to talk to other people that differ from you. Now Everybody Knows about the information bubbles. Were all in and i do too. But theyre dangerous because youre going to rarely hear that goes your beliefs. So you have to kind of go out of way to overcome this confirmation bias is motivated this kin
Fundamentalist. The devil is whoever you dont agree with or disagrees with, you or whose ideas you dont like. Thats the devil. And he should be given his due because you would want the same thing when youre opinions are not accepted or you are the outcast and the larger problem is that none of us are omniscient. Nobody knows the truth about everything or much of anything. So the only way to find out if youve gone off the rails is to talk to other people that differ from you. Now Everybody Knows about the information bubbles. Were all in and i do too. But theyre dangerous because youre going to rarely hear that goes your beliefs. So you have to kind of go out of way to overcome this confirmation bias is motivated this kind of collection of facts that fit what i want to believe is true rather than what not be true and. And you have to do that by to people different from you out of your bubble. So i like the examples i use if you read the wall street journal every day should pick up the N
Agree with or disagrees with, you or whose ideas you dont like. Thats the devil. And he should be given his due because you would want the same thing when youre opinions are not accepted or you are the outcast and the larger problem is that none of us are omniscient. Nobody knows the truth about everything or much of anything. So the only way to find out if youve gone off the rails is to talk to other people that differ from you. Now Everybody Knows about the information bubbles. Were all in and i do too. But theyre dangerous because youre going to rarely hear that goes your beliefs. So you have to kind of go out of way to overcome this confirmation bias is motivated this kind of collection of facts that fit what i want to believe is true rather than what not be true and. And you have to do that by to people different from you out of your bubble. So i like the examples i use if you read the wall street journal every day should pick up the New York Times in a while and read their op ed
Not accepted or you are the outcast and the larger problem is that none of us are omniscient. Nobody knows the truth about everything or much of anything. So the only way to find out if youve gone off the rails is to talk to other people that differ from you. Now Everybody Knows about the information bubbles. Were all in and i do too. But theyre dangerous because youre going to rarely hear that goes your beliefs. So you have to kind of go out of way to overcome this confirmation bias is motivated this kind of collection of facts that fit what i want to believe is true rather than what not be true and. And you have to do that by to people different from you out of your bubble. So i like the examples i use if you read the wall street journal every day should pick up the New York Times in a while and read their op ed section and just force yourself to read some of those contrarian or vice versa, you know . Or if youre a big fox news, you know, tune in to msnbc or cnn just to see what the