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#8 Julia Galef: The Art of Changing Minds

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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I Don't Know, Cigarettes Aren't Linked to Cancer

i think it's quite easy to e to present what looks like a very compelling case for whatever you want. The problem is that if you do enough studies, some of them will turn out to showwhatever you want. You can sort of selectively present the studies that support what you're claiming. And so even if you have a pretty sceptical, well educated audience, who knows, ok, i shouldn't believe things without a study? Am, you can still kind of pull one over on them. So in the context of climate change, where you have, you know, possibly people creating doubt or uncertainty,. Or we can use cigarettes to be more tangible, where, i think the evidence

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