Episode 2813 CWSA 04/18/25
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What is the highlight of human civilization according to Scott Adams?
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How does sleep quality relate to belief in conspiracy theories?
So according to a study that's being written about in The Conversation, Daniel Jolly and Ewan Dinick, they say that there's a new research that shows that poor sleep quality can make you believe in conspiracy theories. Has anybody had that experience where you wake up and you didn't have a good sleep and all of a sudden you're like, oh, we didn't land on the moon? Anybody? No? But here's what's wrong with this study, according to me. The way they studied whether sleep determines how much you believe in a conspiracy theory is they came up with a fake one, and then they just had people evaluate the fake one. And then toward the end of their article about how they've done this research, They talked about how important it is to understand conspiracy theorists because conspiracy theorists might be involved with vaccine hesitancy, climate change denial, and violent extremism. So here's the problem with that kind of research. It really kind of requires that the researchers either use a conspiracy theory test that nobody really believes as a real conspiracy theory.
That's just sort of a made up one. But as soon as they test anything that's real, as in people really believe it, like vaccine hesitancy or climate change, then they need to be the judges of what's true and what's a conspiracy. And I'm not sure they're good at it. What if the researchers themselves didn't get enough sleep? They would come to work and they'd be like, I don't think we landed on the moon. How much sleep did you get? I got about four hours. I couldn't wait to get to work. Yep. So I think you would need to be extra smart to see that conspiracies are real. So here's what I think. I think if you don't get enough sleep, your brain will still want to give you an answer to anything that's confusing and
So the less sleep you get, the more likely you might glom onto some simple conspiracy theory. But the real conspiracy theories, you know, the ones that have lots of detail and you'd have to really understand how all the moving parts work. Like later, I'm going to tell you about the Biden administration completely ending free speech in America or attempting to. And it has a whole bunch of moving parts. you would have to be really unsleepy to even understand the whole conspiracy before you could even have an opinion on it. So I've got a feeling that the two things that make you believe in conspiracies are being sleepy, but also being very awake. The two extremes. The place where you're probably not believing in the conspiracies is, oh, you had a pretty good sleep, but... You're not really keyed into all the details of what's going on in the real world. Anyway, the so-called Tesla Diner in Santa Monica is almost open, and it's going to be kind of cool. So you'll be able to go there.
and buy food, and the staff will allegedly, we don't have confirmation of this, be on skates. So it's like a diner with skates that shows two big screens that have 30-minute movies that are designed to be the right length for how long your car charges. And I guess anybody can go there to eat. You don't have to be charging your car, and it doesn't need to be a Tesla.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the highlight of human civilization according to Scott Adams?
0:01–1:16
2
How does sleep quality relate to belief in conspiracy theories?
1:16–27:06
3
What new developments are happening with crewless ships?
27:06–34:54
4
What humorous remarks did Trump make recently?
34:54–43:43
5
Why are younger Americans supporting Trump?
43:43–51:43
6
What is the Supreme Court's role in district judge rulings?
51:43–58:07
7
What changes did the Mayo Clinic make to its DEI office?
58:07–1:17:49
Speakers
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