Jesse Rogerson

And if you aren't prepared for it, I think we need education in literacy, but we also need to understand our own psychological responses.

And the scientists in this study said specifically they don't know what the psychological mechanism is that allows you to still be influenced even if you know it's not real.

And they're interested in digging deeper into that.

Yeah.

But then you ask the question, you're like, I guess this is all about trust.

It's all about, you know, confirming your own ideas and being open to other ideas.

These are massive, massive character flaws that humanity has.

Right.

And we need to work on it.

My big advice for all of us, whenever I talk to my friends about, or anybody, my students as well, is that you shouldn't, if you're labeling yourself as part of a team,

I'm like, I'm part of this group and I'm part of that group and you only believe what they say, then you're already like up against it, right?

You should, you have to, we're not part of teams.

We're all part of the group.

We're all working together.

So this was a, I teach a course called history of astronomy and we do the entire history of astronomy.

It's mostly from a European perspective, unfortunately, but it does a decent job of covering the story from early, early humans, 10,000 years ago or so up until today.

And one of the big parts we focus on is ancient Greek astronomy and like

600 BCE to about 200 CE or so, that ancient Greek into ancient Rome.

And one of the most notable people during that time was this guy named Hipparchus.

Hipparchus was apparently one of the best observers on the planet.