Episode · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · 2023-02-01

Books mentioned on How To Be A Skeptic, Part Two: Friends and Family

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We've all been there - you're at a gathering of friends or family, when someone starts to go off the rails, expounding a strange series of unfounded conspiracies (or worse). How do you connect with this person, and help guide them away from the cognitive brink toward the world of critical thought?

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   When Prophecy Fails

   Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter · at 2:35 · mentioned 2 times

   When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger, Henry W.

   Discussed

   “and uh this was so interesting to these scientists who conducted this that they wrote a book about it uh back in 1957 I think called when prophecy fails”

   Ben Bowlin How To Be A Skeptic, Part Two: Friends and Family 2023-02-01 Listen at 2:35

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