EP 946 Where Does the Truth Lie? Or How Can We Tell When Lies are Not the Truth?

 

I must admit that while I took a deep dive into Michael Shermer’s new book, “Truth: What It Is, How to Find It & Why It Still Matters,” I was not certain in what direction I would take the interview.  It raised so many questions about this moment when many believe that you can’t believe anything you read or see in the media and that politicians feel the bigger the lie, the harder it is to refute.  So how do you test for veracity, when you’re told there are such things as ‘alternative facts?’  It’s so confusing.  However, his great personality and sharp intellect were on full display and off to the races we were discussing scientific truths and how they’re tested and a range of other truths from spiritual to political.  Shermer, in addition to being the author of a fascinating new book about almost imponderable subject, is the publisher of ‘Skeptic’ magazine.  So why not start by asking what differentiates a skeptic from a cynic and then, well, we were off and running.

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