Sedona Chinn, a researcher who studies how people make sense of competing scientific, environmental, and health-related claims, joins us to discuss her latest research into doing your own research. In her latest paper she found that the more a person values the concept of doing your own research, the less likely that person is to actually do their own research. In the episode we explore the origin of the concept, what that phrase really means, and the implications of her study on everything from politics to vaccines to conspiratorial thinking.
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087 - Paranoia
086 - Change My View
085 - Misremembering - Julia Shaw (rebroadcast)
084 - Getting Gamers - Jamie Madigan
083 - Idiot Brain - Dean Burnett
082 - Crowds (rebroadcast)
081 - The Climate Paradox
080 - Deep Canvassing
079 - Separate Spheres
078 - The Existential Fallacy
077 - The Conjunction Fallacy
076 - The Genetic Fallacy
075 - Special Pleading / Moving the Goalposts
074 - Begging The Question
073 - Bayes' Theorem
072 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect (Rebroadcast)
071 - The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
070 - The No True Scotsman Fallacy
069 - The Black And White Fallacy
068 - The Strawman Fallacy
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