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b'Nuclear fission powers the Sun. Or is it fusion? At any rate, helium is burned in the process, of that you are certain. After all, you read that article on astronomy last week*.\\nYou know what you know. But you probably don\\u2019t know what you don\\u2019t know. Few of us do. Scientists say we\\u2019re spectacularly incompetent at recognizing our own incompetency, and that sometimes leads to trouble.\\nFind out why wrongness is the by-product of big brains and why even scientists \\u2013 gasp! \\u2013 are not immune. Plus, a peek into the trash bin of history: the biggest scientific blunders and the brighter-than-bright brains that made them. Including Einstein.\\n*Oh, and the Sun burns hydrogen to produce helium. But then, you knew that.\\nGuests:\\n\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0David Dunning \\u2013 Psychologist, Cornell University. His cover story, \\u201cWe Are All Confidence Idiots,\\u201d appeared in the November/December issue of The Pacific Standard.\\n\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0Robert Burton \\u2013 Neurologist, author, On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You\\u2019re Not and A Skeptic\\u2019s Guide to the Mind: What Neuroscience Can and Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves\\n\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0Brendan Nyhan \\u2013 Political scientist, Dartmouth College\\n\\n\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0Mario Livio \\u2013 Astrophysicist, Space Telescope Science Institute, author, Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein \\u2013 Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe\\nFirst released November 10, 2014.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'