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Feb 2022
40m 26s

Conspiracy Theories

DAVID GUIGNION
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In this episode, I present a conference presentation I gave about conspiracy theories organized by Brian Keeley and MRX Dentith. It's titled, "A Critique of Skeptical Reason." Dr. Dentith hosts a podcast called The Podcaster’s Guide to the Conspiracy and can be found here: https://conspiracism.podbean.com/

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