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#395 - Intellectual Authority and Its Discontents

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Corruption of Scholarship and the Impact of Bad Incentives

This chapter explores how political influences and questionable funding affect academic integrity, particularly in Middle Eastern studies and COVID-19. It emphasizes the need for maintaining high intellectual standards to counter misinformation in health policy.

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