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#55-How to Identify BS and When and How to Challenge It-with Guest Jevin West

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Is There a New Kind of BS?

In your book, you make a distinction between old school BS and new school BS. "BSing is happening for centuries, basically from the beginning of human communication," he says. But there's a new kind of BS that's really on the charge: data and numbers wrapped in infographics or algorithms. And it's that form that can cause just as much problems; we've seen that during the pandemic.

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