The Dr. Bo Show


The Dr. Bo Show with Bo Bennett, PhD
The Dr. Bo Show is a critical thinking-, reason-, and science-based approach to issues that matter. It is the podcast of social psychologist Bo Bennett. This podcast is a collection of topics related to all of his books. The podcast episodes, depending on the episode, are hosted by either Dr. Bennett or Jerry Sage, discussing the work of Dr. Bennett.

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Consumer vs Creator: Finding Balance in Life

December 14, 2024

Explore the roles of consumer and creator in life. Discover how creating more can lead to greater well-being and wealth.

The Rise of Persecution Claims Over Responsibility

December 10, 2024

Explore the trend of replacing responsibility with persecution claims, its impact on justice, and the role of critical thinking in today's society.

Unraveling the Mysteries of Biblical Interpretation

November 28, 2024

Discover how the Bible's meanings vary across contexts, translations, and interpretations, offering insights into its rich complexity and timeless relevance.

Protesting: Balancing Passion and Principle

November 24, 2024

Explore the fine line between peaceful protest and illegality, emphasizing the need for consistency and fairness in how we judge these actions.

Becoming a Science and Reason Warrior: A Guide to Informed Dialogue

November 20, 2024

Explore the concept of Science and Reason Warriors—individuals dedicated to promoting truth and accuracy in a world of misinformation.

Unraveling the Enigma: Faith, Science, and Divine Healing

November 19, 2024

Explore the intersection of faith, science, and critical thinking in our latest podcast episode, delving into the mystery of divine healing and its implications.

How Media Manipulates with Outrage

November 18, 2024

Explore how media manufactures outrage and its impact on well-being. Learn to navigate news with critical thinking and avoid sensationalist traps.

Understanding the Hierarchy of Evidence: A Guide to Critical Thinking

November 17, 2024

Explore the hierarchy of evidence and learn how to evaluate claims using scientific methods. Avoid pitfalls of appeal to authority with critical thinking.

The Suburbanite's Dilemma and Toilet Paper

November 15, 2024

Explore the suburbanite's dilemma—a modern twist on the prisoner's dilemma. Learn how logic and humor can navigate toilet paper shortages.

Consumer vs Creator: Finding Balance in Life

Explore the roles of consumer and creator in life. Discover how creating more can lead to greater well-being and wealth.

Consumer vs Creator: Finding Balance in Life

Explore the roles of consumer and creator in life. Discover how creating more can lead to greater well-being and wealth.

The Rise of Persecution Claims Over Responsibility

Explore the trend of replacing responsibility with persecution claims, its impact on justice, and the role of critical thinking in today's society.

The Rise of Persecution Claims Over Responsibility

Explore the trend of replacing responsibility with persecution claims, its impact on justice, and the role of critical thinking in today's society.

Unraveling the Mysteries of Biblical Interpretation

Discover how the Bible's meanings vary across contexts, translations, and interpretations, offering insights into its rich complexity and timeless relevance.

Unraveling the Mysteries of Biblical Interpretation

Discover how the Bible's meanings vary across contexts, translations, and interpretations, offering insights into its rich complexity and timeless relevance.

Protesting: Balancing Passion and Principle

Explore the fine line between peaceful protest and illegality, emphasizing the need for consistency and fairness in how we judge these actions.

Protesting: Balancing Passion and Principle

Explore the fine line between peaceful protest and illegality, emphasizing the need for consistency and fairness in how we judge these actions.

Becoming a Science and Reason Warrior: A Guide to Informed Dialogue

Explore the concept of Science and Reason Warriors—individuals dedicated to promoting truth and accuracy in a world of misinformation.

Becoming a Science and Reason Warrior: A Guide to Informed Dialogue

Explore the concept of Science and Reason Warriors—individuals dedicated to promoting truth and accuracy in a world of misinformation.

Unraveling the Enigma: Faith, Science, and Divine Healing

Explore the intersection of faith, science, and critical thinking in our latest podcast episode, delving into the mystery of divine healing and its implications.

Unraveling the Enigma: Faith, Science, and Divine Healing

Explore the intersection of faith, science, and critical thinking in our latest podcast episode, delving into the mystery of divine healing and its implications.

How Media Manipulates with Outrage

Explore how media manufactures outrage and its impact on well-being. Learn to navigate news with critical thinking and avoid sensationalist traps.

How Media Manipulates with Outrage

Explore how media manufactures outrage and its impact on well-being. Learn to navigate news with critical thinking and avoid sensationalist traps.

Understanding the Hierarchy of Evidence: A Guide to Critical Thinking

Explore the hierarchy of evidence and learn how to evaluate claims using scientific methods. Avoid pitfalls of appeal to authority with critical thinking.

Understanding the Hierarchy of Evidence: A Guide to Critical Thinking

Explore the hierarchy of evidence and learn how to evaluate claims using scientific methods. Avoid pitfalls of appeal to authority with critical thinking.

The Suburbanite's Dilemma and Toilet Paper

Explore the suburbanite's dilemma—a modern twist on the prisoner's dilemma. Learn how logic and humor can navigate toilet paper shortages.

The Suburbanite's Dilemma and Toilet Paper

Explore the suburbanite's dilemma—a modern twist on the prisoner's dilemma. Learn how logic and humor can navigate toilet paper shortages.

Understanding Statistics and Stereotypes: A Critical Examination

Explore how data shapes stereotypes and learn how to challenge them through understanding, humor, and education with host Jerry Sage.

Understanding Statistics and Stereotypes: A Critical Examination

Explore how data shapes stereotypes and learn how to challenge them through understanding, humor, and education with host Jerry Sage.

Justice and Fair Trials: A Rational Perspective

Explore the significance of fair trials and critical thinking in today's media-driven world. Join Jerry Sage for an insightful discussion.

Justice and Fair Trials: A Rational Perspective

Explore the significance of fair trials and critical thinking in today's media-driven world. Join Jerry Sage for an insightful discussion.

Understanding the Balance: Mental Health Awareness Without the Hype

Explore the balance between mental health destigmatization and its unintended consequences. Learn how to approach mental health with logic and empathy.

Understanding the Balance: Mental Health Awareness Without the Hype

Explore the balance between mental health destigmatization and its unintended consequences. Learn how to approach mental health with logic and empathy.

The Perils of Judging by Worst Moments

Explore the dangers of judging people by their worst moments and discover the value of empathy and understanding in everyday life.

The Perils of Judging by Worst Moments

Explore the dangers of judging people by their worst moments and discover the value of empathy and understanding in everyday life.

The Mysterious "They": Unmasking a Linguistic Illusion

Explore the manipulative use of "they" in language, uncovering its impact on communication and fostering critical thinking skills.

The Mysterious "They": Unmasking a Linguistic Illusion

Explore the manipulative use of "they" in language, uncovering its impact on communication and fostering critical thinking skills.

How to Avoid Becoming a Miserable Person: A Guide to Focused Positivity

Discover how focusing on specific passions can lead to joy and meaningful change, avoiding the trap of negativity and becoming a happier person.

How to Avoid Becoming a Miserable Person: A Guide to Focused Positivity

Discover how focusing on specific passions can lead to joy and meaningful change, avoiding the trap of negativity and becoming a happier person.

Exploring the Pitfalls of Alternative Media

Unpack the issues with alternative media and discover guidelines for integrity. A humorous, informative dive into misconceptions and media responsibility.

Exploring the Pitfalls of Alternative Media

Unpack the issues with alternative media and discover guidelines for integrity. A humorous, informative dive into misconceptions and media responsibility.

The Miscalculation of Joy in Politics: Embracing Kindness

Explore Kamala Harris's campaign theme of joy, its challenges, and why kindness may be a more effective political strategy today.

The Miscalculation of Joy in Politics: Embracing Kindness

Explore Kamala Harris's campaign theme of joy, its challenges, and why kindness may be a more effective political strategy today.

Understanding Correlation vs. Causation: A Guide for Better Decision Making

Explore the importance of distinguishing between causality and correlation to improve decision-making and avoid being misled by false connections.

Understanding Correlation vs. Causation: A Guide for Better Decision Making

Explore the importance of distinguishing between causality and correlation to improve decision-making and avoid being misled by false connections.

Understanding Cognitive Biases: Navigating Everyday Decision-Making

Learn how cognitive biases impact health, wealth, happiness, and more, and discover strategies to improve your decision-making process.

Navigating Critical Thinking: Mastering Effects, Biases, and Fallacies

Enhance decision-making skills by understanding effects, biases, heuristics, logical fallacies, and manipulation techniques.

Navigating Critical Thinking: Mastering Effects, Biases, and Fallacies

Enhance decision-making skills by understanding effects, biases, heuristics, logical fallacies, and manipulation techniques.

Understanding Cognitive Biases: Navigating Everyday Decision-Making

Learn how cognitive biases impact health, wealth, happiness, and more, and discover strategies to improve your decision-making process.

Unveiling the Power of Reasoning: How to Foster Rationality in America

Unleash the power of reasoning and dismantle fallacious arguments! Discover how to make America reasonable again with insights from "Logically Fallacious."

Compartmentalization: How Otherwise Rational People Believe Idiotic Things

This article is about people who are otherwise reasonable who have managed to compartmentalize one issue that is immune from critical thought.

Compartmentalization: How Otherwise Rational People Believe Idiotic Things

This article is about people who are otherwise reasonable who have managed to compartmentalize one issue that is immune from critical thought.

Stay Calm. Enjoy Life.

Some poor, phone-less fool is probably sitting next to a waterfall somewhere totally unaware of how angry and scared he’s supposed to be.

Stay Calm. Enjoy Life.

Some poor, phone-less fool is probably sitting next to a waterfall somewhere totally unaware of how angry and scared he’s supposed to be.

White Fragility Quiz

I came across this "white fragility" quiz and, as a white person, I decided to take it and share my answers with you. You're welcome.

White Fragility Quiz

I came across this "white fragility" quiz and, as a white person, I decided to take it and share my answers with you. You're welcome.

White Fragility Quiz

I came across this "white fragility" quiz and, as a white person, I decided to take it and share my answers with you. You're welcome.

The Coronavirus and Prosocial Manipulation

What if you learned that you were manipulated into holding certain beliefs about and changing your behavior in regards to the Coronavirus?...

The Coronavirus and Prosocial Manipulation

What if you learned that you were manipulated into holding certain beliefs about and changing your behavior in regards to the Coronavirus?...

That A**hole Who is Right

We all know that person. They are arrogant, abrasive, and don't possess one iota of diplomacy—or even if they do, they have chosen not to exercise any with us.

Reported Cases of Coronavirus is Increasing... and That's Not Necessarily Bad

It is understandable how increasing numbers of known cases can be worrisome if not terrifying. At first glance, these numbers appear to represent the number...

The Jeep Scam: Critical Thinking in Everyday Life

Scammers and con-artists are all over the Internet. Not all scams are easy to spot—at least not at first...

The Anatomy of the Analogy: When Weak is Not Weak and False is Not False

The analogy one of the most useful tools in argumentation as well as one of the most helpful aids in effective reasoning. It allows us to compare something ...

Choose Kind... and Right

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer wrote, "When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind." I say,...

Reductio Ad Consequentia - Reducing the Argument to the Consequences

Reductio Ad Consequentia is the use of a rule to support a position without realizing that the same rule would require that support for other positions...

If You Could Only Save One, Would You Save a Child or a Thousand Embryos?

This is a response to the abortion argument by Patrick S. Tomlinson and the response by Ben Shapiro.

It's a Conspiracy!

The interesting thing about conspiracy theories is that some of them are actually true. This gives all conspiracy theories a hint of legitimacy in that no matte

Arguing with a Presuppostionalist

A trick of the presuppositionalists is to hold others to impossible standards while using special pleading to excuse themselves from such justification.

Welcome to the Upside Down

Our passions, desires, and biases (i.e., emotions) can be so powerful that it can make us believe that what is clearly true to others, is clearly false to us.

Women, Rape, and Responsibility

This exchange is ripe with fallacious reasoning—at least the response is. This is often what happends when emotion or idiology trumps reason...

Top Five Logical Fallacies in the Social Justice Movement

There is a disturbing trend in the social justice movement where science, data, facts, and reason are sacrificed for ideology. Critics of the social justice mov

Arguing with Social Justice Activists and Conspiracy Theorists: You Can't Win

Uncomfortable Idea: Interpreting feedback or an argument that refutes your ideas as evidence for your ideas, is a flaw in reasoning similar to that of...

Do I Really Want President Trump To Succeed?

In the first version of the book, I wrote an article about giving the winner of the presidential election a chance and supporting him or her no matter who...

Close Encounter of the Non-Existent Kind

I was six years old when I involuntarily chased my first alien spaceship. Wait, perhaps you need a little context to this story before I jump right into it.

Age of Consent and Sex

Uncomfortable Idea: If you are past your mid-twenties and engaging in sexual activity with people younger than their mid-twenties, you are likley, knowingly...

Mental Illness Should Not Be Treated the Same as Physical Illness

Uncomfortable Idea: We should not treat mental illness like physical illness.

The Concept of Equity is Not That Simple

Uncomfortable Idea: Equity is synonymous with fairness, but not with wealth distribution or giving people who don't have a lot of stuff, free stuff...

Allowing Private Businesses to Discriminate

Uncomfortable Idea: Allowing private businesses to discriminate is not as horrible as it sounds.

Is the Existence of God an Uncomfortable Idea to the Atheist?

Uncomfortable Idea: If atheists are wrong, according to some Christian beliefs, they will be tortured for all eternity.

When People Die, Their Strengths Live On But Their Weaknesses Die With Them

Uncomfortable Idea: When people are telling you all about your loved one who has passed away, you are almost certainly hearing a highly fictionalized...

We're Getting Sicker

Uncomfortable Idea: In our efforts to save the sick, we are creating generations of people who are more likely to have genetically health-related issues.

How To Win the Temptation Game

When faced with temptation, we can either give into it, or not.  The reason we choose one way or another has to do with how we deliberate.

Bright and Shiny: Rethinking Positive Thinking

There has been much research conducted in the last few decades attempting to demonstrate statistically significant benefits of positive thinking.

Don't Let Rationality Sabotage Your Success

The journey to reason is a wonderful one comprising countless moments of understanding fueled by passion.

How To Be More Resilient: Bouncing Back from Life's Curveballs

Stop blaming dad for your sexual timidness because when you were three years old he smacked you on the behind for eating rat poison under the sink...

Achieving Optimal Physical Fitness Through Science, Not Wishful Thinking

Gallup just released the results of their latest poll on adult obesity in the United States, finding that obesity increased from 25.5% in 2008 to 27.7% in 2014

Achieving Optimal Physical Fitness Through Science, Not Wishful Thinking

Gallup just released the results of their latest poll on adult obesity in the United States, finding that obesity increased from 25.5% in 2008 to 27.7% in 2014