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Our guest today is Michael Huemer, he is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder, and an author.
Is generational wealth holding everyone back? Do American police regularly murder unarmed black men just for being black? Is global warming really going to destroy human civilization?
Michael Huemer dives into the evidence to find out whether the most popular political beliefs are true or false.
Today, we’ll discuss why many facts used to support progressive political views are radically misleading, why these myths have become so popular, the dangers of these myths in media and academia, how we can spot and avoid these myths, why academia operates as a dogmatic religion, the psychological mechanisms that give rise to false beliefs and much more…
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