TCT 018: Critical Thinking About Conspiracies (Part 3): Conspiracies, Mind Control and Falsifiability




The Critical Thinker Academy show

Summary: This is Part 3 of our multi-part series on critical thinking about conspiracies. In this episode we follow up on the discussion of "default skepticism" that was introduced in episode 017, and examine what happens to the dialectic between the skeptic and the conspiracy theorist when claims about pervasive "mind control" are added to the equation. In this episode I also introduce Karl Popper's concept of "falsifiable" versus "unfalsifiable" theories, and discuss it's relevance to the debate.