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#268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Study of Ignorance Is Not Your Production Side
ignorance is not just a manifestation of what it means to be human it's also forced back onto you through the culture. The tobacco industry when they built their propaganda engines to deny that cigarettes cause cancer they measured exactly how much ignorance could be created by watching one of their videos. Richard Nixon declares war on cancer in 1971 it's called the war on cancer cigarettes were excluded even though cigarettes caused a third of all cancers all cancer deaths cigarettes were excluded.
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