“The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.”
-Robert Green Ingersoll
On TEDtalks – Michael Shermer takes us on a hilarious romp through the strange claims we humans put forth as truth – from alien encounters to Virgin Mary sightings on pizza pies, to hidden messages revealed while playing “Stairway to Heaven” backwards – and explains the evolutionary and cognitive basis for these lapses in reason.
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