Those Are the Nefarious Pieces That Have Been in Play on This Point

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You can always find a phd, or an m d, or half a dozen p h ds or m ds to take any crazy position upon any topic. We actually want scientists to be sceptical. There's always that contrarian yes to be found and to be ample. Di'm not sure what we do with that. It's a very high leverage environment. Now, where you you can get in the weaponization of that. Ya. I mean, again, this is a bug, not a feature, of science. Nevertheless, nevertheless, i don't think that when we are going to address a question id say, as a consumer of information, we should go about

Sam Harris speaks with Nicholas Christakis about the lessons of the COVID pandemic. They discuss our failures to coordinate an effective response, the politics surrounding vaccination, vaccine efficacy, vaccine safety, how to think about scientific controversies, the epidemiology of excess deaths, transmission among the vaccinated, natural immunity, selection pressures and new variants, the failure of institutions, the lab-leak hypothesis, the efficacy of lockdowns, vaccine mandates, boosters, what would happen in a worse pandemic, and other topics.

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