Annaka Harris

I'm not a fan of following...

Yeah.

I'm very interested in why they're so compelling to some people and not others.

I feel like there must be some difference that at some point we'll be able to discover.

Yeah.

Because some people are just not susceptible to them.

And some people are really drawn to them.

I see it the opposite way.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Thinking the Earth is flat is following your intuitions and not being open to counterintuitive ideas.

It's a very closed way of viewing things.

Saying it's actually, it's not the way you feel.

There's information that tells us there's something else going on.

That type of person will say, no, it's the way it feels to me.

Right.

But the first step is... I think if you're open to evidence, then the evidence clearly takes you in one direction.

Yes, the truth is often crazier than what the situation feels to be.

I know what you mean, to be skeptical about the, it's the authority.

Cass, I feel like mainstream science has never been mainstream and it's always a struggle for science to become mainstream.