Despite the impression that science is under attack, there is more trust in science than ever before. I looked at the COVID pandemic, for instance, and you compare it to what happened during the Black Death. It's a completely different situation. The Pope even see the Pope telling people, don't come to church. Why? Because the doctor's sense so. Right. Plus, they stop sharing in a Catholic mass. You share in a traditional Catholic mass, you share the chalice with the wine in it. And everyone drinks from the same. So they say, wait, let's pull back on this one. They did make mid-course corrections to the rituals. Yeah
How did humans come to create society? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Yuval Noah Harari, historian and author of “Sapiens” & “Unstoppable Us,” discuss our species’ ability to cooperate, the role of artificial intelligence, and more.
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