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173. Naomi Oreskes — Why Trust Science?

The Michael Shermer Show

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Is Markism Scientific?

Carl papper was in part trying to refute communism as as a scientific idea. He became kind of, i would say, be fair to say, almost fixated in proving that it wasn't scientific. And there was lots of good empirical evidence to show that the russian economy wasn't working well. I mean, why do you also have to worry about whether markism is scientific or not?

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