We sit down with Brian Brushwood to discuss how he put together this most recent season of The World's Greatest Con, his podcast about incredible scams. This season is all about how two teenagers pulled off an incredible hoax called Project Alpha, a con job and a publicity stunt, meant to improve scientific rigor and methodology when it comes to studying the possibility of the existence of psychic phenomena.
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127 - Selfie
126 - Separate Spheres (rebroadcast)
125 - Status Quo Rationalization
124 - Belief Change Blindness
123 - Active Information Avoidance (rebroadcast)
122 - Tribal Psychology
121 - Progress (rebroadcast)
120 - The Backfire Effect - Part Four
119 - The Unpersuadables
118 - Connections (rebroadcast)
117 - Idiot Brain (rebroadcast)
116 - Reality (rebroadcast)
115 - Machine Bias
114 - Moral Arguments (rebroadcast)
113 - Narrative Persuasion
112 - Change My View (rebroadcast)
111 - Collective Intelligence
110 - Sleep Deprivation and Bias
109 - The Search Effect (rebroadcast)
108 - Pandora's Lab
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