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Why the Right Is Easy to Fool · The Lucas Bean Show

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  Why conservatives can't tell the difference between facts and
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  lies There's a
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  psychological reason for that Somehow they are proud of
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  believing in things with
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  SPEAKER_00: zero evidence In 2024,
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  researchers at the University of Limerick published a study in
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  the British Journal
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  of Social Psychology They mapped out the actual beliefs of
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  Republicans and
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  Democrats across 40 political topics to see if there was a
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  difference in how each
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  side thinks Researchers called it attitude network density
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  Republicans showed more
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  SPEAKER_00: variety in their opinions
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  SPEAKER_00: Democrats showed less variety in their opinions.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's what they left out.
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  SPEAKER_00: That variety was not made up of smart, independent ideas.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was made up of things with zero scientific evidence behind them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Climate denial,
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  SPEAKER_00: flat earth,
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  SPEAKER_00: vaccine conspiracies,
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  SPEAKER_00: stolen election conspiracies,
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  SPEAKER_00: Bigfoot,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Loch Ness Monster.
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  If you don't need proof to believe in something,
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  you can believe absolutely anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course you end up with more variety.
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  SPEAKER_00: Democrats showed fewer tighter opinions.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the reason is simple.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you follow real science and real evidence,
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  SPEAKER_00: you stop believing in things that cannot be proven.
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  SPEAKER_00: The more you know, the less you believe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Facts don't give you a hundred different answers.
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  Facts tend to give you a definitive answer that can be retested
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  and proven over and
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  over again so that you can see that fact to be true in front of
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  your eyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is why logic does not work on conservatives.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are not debating factual ideas.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are debating belief vacant of all facts and evidence.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are debating people who decided that proof doesn't matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: You show them the data, they call it fake.
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  SPEAKER_00: You show them science, they call it a conspiracy.
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  These people didn't even believe Artemis II went to the moon
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  and back in real time.
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  They were literally denying science as it was happening in
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  front of their face.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every flat earther,
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  SPEAKER_00: every stolen election lie,
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  SPEAKER_00: every vaccine conspiracy,
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  SPEAKER_00: it all traces back to the same thing.
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  A belief system with no standards for what you allow into that
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  belief system.
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  SPEAKER_00: So yes, Republicans do have more diversity of thought.
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  In the same way that a dumpster has more diversity of content
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  than a refrigerator,
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  SPEAKER_00: one of them has standards for what gets in.
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  SPEAKER_00: The other one just collects garbage.