Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanojia

If you guys watch clips of Johnny Depp and he's like, you know, he's like hilarious on the stand.

And if you think about the psychological impact that that has on your brain, if someone is funny and entertaining, you are more likely to believe them.

That's like a fact, yo, like a fact.

So I think we do not realize that when we watch things like this, this actually shapes our thinking, whether you realize it or not.

And this is what's really insane.

So I'm going to ask you all a question that's really hard to answer, which is when you believe something about Collargate, what is that based on?

Right.

And we think it's based on evidence, but there's a really, really good chance that it's based on emotion.

And I'm not saying that there isn't evidence that is supportive or not supportive.

We'll kind of get to that in a second.

OK.

But like, I want you all to really, really understand this, that the thoughts that your mind produces are not like super logical.

necessarily like you have to work really hard to have like a logical thought and this is what we see on the internet we know there are tons of studies on online radicalization which is the more time it doesn't matter the more time you spend in a particular bubble the more your thoughts will be shaped in that bubble i've had patients it's fucking terrifying i've had so i had one one friend of mine not a patient whose wife started going down this like instagram

girl power, feminist, like toxic femininity, like misandry, like rabbit hole.

And then like their marriage completely fell apart.

I've also had friends whose, patients usually actually not friends, whose like husbands or boyfriends will start to go down the toxic manosphere rabbit hole.

Right.

And we can even look at like Israel and Palestine is a really good example of like people like Ethan and Hassan used to be friends.

I don't know what the nature of the relationship is.

Maybe they weren't friends.