You Are Not So Smart

We picked You Are Not So Smart for its relentless focus on the gap between what people believe and what the evidence says. Host David McRaney treats motivated reasoning and cognitive biases as practical problems, not parlor tricks. Each episode works from a specific false belief outward to the psychology that sustains it, pulling from primary research rather than pop-science summaries. The show trades breadth for depth, spending full episodes on single concepts. Subscribe for a feed that treats intellectual humility as a skill worth practicing.