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b'Shhh.\\xa0Is someone coming? Okay, we\\u2019ll make this quick.\\xa0There are a lot of scary things going on in the world.\\xa0Naturally you\\u2019re fearful.\\xa0But sometimes fear has a sister emotion: suspicion.\\xa0A nagging worry about what\\u2019s really going on. You know, the stuff they aren\\u2019t telling you.\\xa0Don\\u2019t share this, but we have evidence that both our fear response and our tendency to believe conspiracy theories are evolutionarily adaptive.\\xa0\\nA sociologist who studies fear tells us why we\\u2019re addicted to its thrill when we control the situation, and how the media exploit our fear of losing control to keep us on edge.\\xa0Plus, we examine some alien \\u201ccover-ups\\u201d and discover why it\\u2019s not just the tinfoil hat crowd that falls for outrageous plots.\\nIt\\u2019s Skeptic Check \\u2026. but you didn\\u2019t hear it from us!\\nGuests:\\n\\n\\nMargee Kerr \\u2013 Sociologist\\xa0who studies fear, author of Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear\\n\\n\\n\\nRob Brotherton \\u2013 Psychologist, adjunct assistant professor at Barnard College, and author of\\xa0Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories\\n\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'