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Steven Novella / Illogical Impetus

The battle between the analytical brain and the emotional brain is constantly raging. The logical brain tries to tamper down the reactionary thoughts—and that can be a bit exhausting. Combine this with a global pandemic and a decades long rise in anti-intellectualism and the consequences are deadly.

Click above to hear part 1 of Skeptic Check: Useful Delusions, featuring Steven Novella, neurologist and professor at Yale University School of Medicine. Host of the Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast.

Skeptic Check: Useful Delusions:
Part 1: Steven Novella / Illogical Impetus
Part 2: Shankar Vedantam / Fooling Ourselves
Part 3: Shankar Vedantam / Using Delusion

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