Sceptic society is a sponsor of the podcast. The great courses are an ap on your phone that opens right up to different courses. To day's course i'm going to talk to you about is the black death. Appropriate for my guests new book, which i'll introduce in just a moment.
Disasters are inherently hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises, and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. In this episode, Michael Shermer speaks with one of the world’s most renowned historians, Niall Ferguson, who explains why our ever more bureaucratic and complex systems are making us worse, not better, at handling disasters.