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Home » Interviews » Wrestling with Trust, Propaganda, and Conspiracies, with Amitabha Palmer

Wrestling with Trust, Propaganda, and Conspiracies, with Amitabha Palmer

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CA 9+ Wrestling with Trust, Propaganda, and Conspiracies, with Ami Palmer

Amitabha Palmer is a wrestler, judoka, and an adjunct professor of philosophy at Ohio Northern University.  The topics he researches include how widespread conspiracism and science denialism affect democratic policy making.

I was thrilled to have him on the podcast and I think it’s a very important conversation!

Wrestling with Trust, Propaganda, and Conspiracies, with Amitabha Palmer (Video)

Video Timestamps

00:42 – Introduction
02:11 – Wrestling, judo and philosophy
10:43 – Why the BJJ community is so prone to conspiracy theories
20:24 – When is it rational to defer to an expert, and how do you know who to defer to?
32:53 – How do people discern claims from different experts
35:28 – The Great Barrington declaration
39:38 – Commonly used propaganda tools and how to recognise them
49:39 – Brandolini’s bullshit asymmetry principle
58:49- Conspiracies in social media
1:05:129 – The university environment post Covid
1:11:53 – Difference between vaccine refusers and the vaccine hesitant
1:13:41 – Training pods
1:19:16 – How to get in touch with Ami

Wrestling with Trust, Propaganda, and Conspiracies, with Amitabha Palmer (Audio)

You can also just listen to the audio form of this interview on my podcast.

All the same material is covered in episode 325 of The Strenuous Life Podcast which you can listen to using the podcast player that you already have on your phone!

the free apple podcast app

For example, if you have an iPhone then it’s the purple app with the antenna-like thing in it; just click the Apple Podcasts link below to go to the right place and hit ‘subscribe’.

Here are the links to find the podcast on various players – today’s episode is number 325…

Or you can simply use the embedded audio player below…

Audio Timestamps

00:51 – Introduction
02:17 – Wrestling, judo and philosophy
11:15 – Why the BJJ community is so prone to conspiracy theories
20:17 – When is it rational to defer to an expert, and how do you know who to defer to?
32:22 – How do people discern claims from different experts
34:53 – The Great Barrington declaration
38:48 – Commonly used propaganda tools and how to recognise them
48:34 – Brandolini’s bullshit asymmetry principle
57:15 – Conspiracies in social media
1:03:19 – The university environment post Covid
11:09:44 – Difference between vaccine refusers and vaccine hesitants
1:11:28 – Training pods
1:16:47 – How to get in touch with Ami

More Amitabha Palmer

Amitabha Palmer is active on Twitter as @FilosoferzBLike.  He always shares excellent information, which is how I first became aware of him.

If you enjoyed this please check out BJJ Cults and Conspiracy Theories with Steve Kwan.

Also please consider watching or listening to Covid Epidemiology 101 with Colin Furness (episode 322 of The Strenuous Life Podcast).

Epidemiology 101 with Colin Furness

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