{"id":781,"date":"2017-10-14T11:51:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T11:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-englishcomp2kscopexmaster\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=781"},"modified":"2017-11-20T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T14:55:00","slug":"michael-shermer-why-people-believe-weird-things","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-englishcomp2kscopexmaster\/chapter\/michael-shermer-why-people-believe-weird-things\/","title":{"raw":"Michael Shermer, Why People Believe Weird Things","rendered":"Michael Shermer, Why People Believe Weird Things"},"content":{"raw":"This video offers a humorous look and insightful at our patterns of thinking.\u00a0 Apply it to yourself, as well as to media patterns and the news flow coming out of political organizations.\r\n\r\nYou may laugh at the video's examples, but we actually used to listen to records (The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Frank Zappa, 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