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056 - Magicians And Scams - Brian Brushwood
You Are Not So Smart
English - August 12, 2015 23:23 - 1 hour - 65.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratingsScience health psychology neuroscience culture mental health brain business mind Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Before we had names for them or a science to study them, the people who could claim the most expertise on biases, fallacies, heuristics and all the other quirks of human reasoning and perception were scam artists, con artists, and magicians. On this episode, magician and scam expert Brian Brushwood explains why people fall for scams of all sizes, how to avoid them, and why most magicians can spot a fraudster a mile away.