Dr. Steven (Steve) Novella
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1,490 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 27 Jun
Dr. Steven (Steve) Novella’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Right, or just the first unique.
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Or just the root word, yeah.
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So that's why some people estimate it more like 40% or whatever, but I thought 30% was the consensus assessment.
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All right.
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That was a fun one.
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So Evan is not here, so I came up with a quote.
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I decided to go back to a classic, a favorite of mine, Thomas Henry Huxley.
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You guys know who he was, right?
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That's right.
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He wrote, what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
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So I thought that that related well to Julia's book and the discussion that we had that everyone thinks they're being rational even when they're just rationalizing their gut feeling, their intuitions, what they want to believe.
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Huxley had that figured out over 100 years ago, 150 years ago.
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Yeah.
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Nothing changes.
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You know what I mean?
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That's one of those things.
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You read about scams from 1,000 years ago and all this stuff.
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It's all the same stuff.
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All the stuff that we're dealing with now is just versions of scams that are thousands of years old or at least hundreds of years old.
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It's really fascinating.
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