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11: Sam Harris - Fighting with Friends

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The Loss of Nature and Cell in the Universities

I'm more worried about the loss of things like nature and science than i am the new york times. I'm now worried that there is nothing, even in the hard sciences, almost, that can stand up to the onslaught of political pressure creeping into everything. We've lost the ability to tell people to screw off if they're wrong,. It's been true of the social sciences for a very long time. Yesi probably, you know, physics and math are going o be the last to go, but i've even seen a little bit of inroads there. And so i find the loss of nature and cell in the universities terrifies me. Do you not perceive that? Like

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