24:57 To which, because I looked him up. I'm like... Did he notice that you had Tourette's? He had no idea! Boing number two! Isn't that interesting? Exactly but the big thing was this article in The New York Times so this guy is certified science authority when it comes to brain and how the brain works for as little as we know and this is the New York Times editorial in the Eureka section written by, and I thought this was very funny that anyone would actually want to have this as their credit Maggie Kurth Baker who is also science editor at BoingBoing which is like if you're writing something in The New York Times
25:49 to be known as the science editor at BoingBoing. I didn't even know there was a science editor! Well, she's not a scientist. She's just a blogger. Did you read this article? Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories You know i may have... It is the most disgusting piece of propaganda and I need to read a few pieces from it Oh yeah, I'm all ears In the days following the bombings of the Boston Marathon, speculation online regarding the identity and motive of unknown perpetrator or perpetrators was rampant. And once the Tsarnaev brothers were identified and the manhunt came to a close, the speculation didn't cease – it took on new form…a sampling
26:35 Maybe the brothers Tsarnaev were just patsies, fall guys set up to take the heat for a mysterious Saudi with high-level connections. Or maybe they were innocent but instead of the Saudis, the actual bomber had acted on behalf of a rogue branch of our own government! Or what if the Tsarnaev's were behind the attacks but secretly working for a larger organization? Crazy as these theories are those propagating them are not... They're quite normal in fact But recent scientific research tells us this much. So science, science people... Hold on a second because I'll forget if you keep going so one of her thesis is that they may have been part of a large organization and that's some sort of a weird conspiracy it's thesis yes based on what she says yes isn't that exactly what the government was thinking when they started investigating everybody they could I remind everyone hello I remind everyone the word conspiracy comes from the root word to conspire which
27:31 I believe it comes from Latin which means to breathe together. So yes, of course it's a conspiracy theory from the government from the people who have some secret videotape we can't see of them putting the bombs into the trash cans. Um...I digress Recent scientific research tells us this much, if you think one of the theories above is plausible you probably feel the same way about others even though they contradict one another and this very likely isn't the only news story that makes you feel as if shadowy forces are behind major world events. And here's a line from her authority
28:14 The best predictor of belief in a conspiracy theory is belief in other conspiracy theories, says Viren Swamy. Viren Swamy here to report in! No he's from England. Uh oh... Viren Swamy he asks I mean anyone whose name's Swami and the psychology professor who studies conspiracy belief at the University of Westminster in England Psychologists say that's because a conspiracy theory isn't so much a response to a single event as it is an expression of an overarching worldview. Now I'm not going to read the entire article, but very important piece here... Let me just look it up here. I have to look up the word. Here we go
29:00 Economic recessions, terrorist attacks and natural disasters are massive looming threats. But we have little power over when they occur or how or what happens afterward. In these moments of powerlessness and uncertainty a part of the brain called the amygdala kicks into action Paul Whelan, a scientist at Dartmouth College who studies the amygdala says it doesn't exactly do anything on its own. Instead the amygdala jump starts the rest of the brain into analytical overdrive prompting repeated reassessments of information in an attempt to create a coherent and understandable narrative, to understand what just happened, what threats still exists and should be done now. This may be useful way to understand how, writ large the brain's capacity for generating new narratives after shocking events can contribute so much paranoia in this country." So she is saying
30:01 that scientists are saying, that it is a brain dysfunction. That you have a hyperactive amygdala that makes you into a paranoid conspiracy theorist and I am allowed to tell you today that the professor of all things brain at UT said...I could quote him on this..that this is a load of horseshit I like it damnit and He says there is he says the studies are absolutely inconclusive It's horse crap, and he doesn't believe any of this And but the whole article which was emailed probably the most Email thing of this past week is a part of a larger strategy by the completely compromised
31:04 minority media to make anyone with an alternative thought into an idiot. And of course the next step will be a medicated idiot because that's literally where it goes and, of course at the end of the column she brings in Alex Jones...and you know just one after another of all these crazy crazy conspiracy theories and she I mean the only thing she didn't put in there was moon landing stuff but everything else is in there from AIDS to vaccinations to just you know to Bush being part of it. She's essentially walking the walk. Oh, but she's not a science scientist! She's not a licensed scientist. Yeah I know it's just like uh... She's an A-hole or she is.