325 - Wrestling with Trust, Propaganda, and Conspiracies, with Ami Palmer
From The Strenuous Life Podcast
Ami Palmer is a wrestler, judoka, and an adjunct professor of philosophy at Ohio Northern University. The topics he researches include how widespread conspiracism and science denialism affect democratic policy making. I was thrilled to have him on the podcast and I think it's a very important conversation!
00:51 - Introduction
02:17 - Wrestling, judo and philosophy
11:15 - Why the BJJ community is so prone to conspiracy theories
20:17 - When is it rational to defer to an expert, and how do you know who to defer to?
32:22 - How do people discern claims from different experts
34:53 - The Great Barrington declaration
38:48 - Commonly used propaganda tools and how to recognise them
48:34 - Brandolini's bullshit asymmetry principle
57:15 - Conspiracies in social media
1:03:19 - The university environment post Covid
11:09:44 - Difference between vaccine refusers and vaccine hesitants
1:11:28 - Training pods
1:16:47 - How to get in touch with Ami
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