Episode 139 - Barbara Drescher on World-View Escrow

Barbara Drescher is a cognitive psychologist and writer for Skeptic.com.  She is highly accomplished and published in her field and today's quote is all about rational behavior.  Sometimes we do stupid things, things we know better than to do, and yet we do them anyway.  Why? And more importantly HOW do we avoid doing them?  Drescher has a solution...escrow.  

The original article is here: Why Smart People are Not Always Rational