StarTalk, season 3 episode 20
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garoteAnswering the question, "are conservatives more susceptible to conspiracy theories?"
Alison Dagnes, Ph. D.
"For the last 40 years, conservatives have been banging this drum that the government is corrupt and untrustworthy, that the media are biased and untrustworthy, and that academics are left-leaning and thus untrustworthy. After you yell this for 40 years, people tend to believe it. As a result, when these institutions come forward and say 'here's some truth', the response is, 'I don't trust you.'"
But hey, what does she know, she's an academic, right?
Bill Maher, on the same episode, on making fun of religion in his movie "Religulous":
"You don't have to make fun of it, it makes fun of itself. Just point the camera and ask the question; they will do it for you. When I pitched the movie I said, 'religion is the side of a comedic barn. If I can't hit it in this movie I am gonna get out of the business.' And it is; I mean, there's nothing easier to make fun of. Ask Noah."
Alison Dagnes, Ph. D.
"For the last 40 years, conservatives have been banging this drum that the government is corrupt and untrustworthy, that the media are biased and untrustworthy, and that academics are left-leaning and thus untrustworthy. After you yell this for 40 years, people tend to believe it. As a result, when these institutions come forward and say 'here's some truth', the response is, 'I don't trust you.'"
But hey, what does she know, she's an academic, right?
Bill Maher, on the same episode, on making fun of religion in his movie "Religulous":
"You don't have to make fun of it, it makes fun of itself. Just point the camera and ask the question; they will do it for you. When I pitched the movie I said, 'religion is the side of a comedic barn. If I can't hit it in this movie I am gonna get out of the business.' And it is; I mean, there's nothing easier to make fun of. Ask Noah."
