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#587 - Rory Sutherland - 19 Of Human Behaviour's Weirdest Quirks
Modern Wisdom
Monotheorism, or Mono-Theorism?
I mean, one of the interesting ones is that all social ills are down to social media, always strikes me as a bit too f***y easy. And I've been talking to doctors recently about obesity and it looks as though there may be a group of people who are fat simply because they're very good at extracting energy from food. There's an equal body of belief which suggests a very eccentric opinion that tobacco tea coffee were major contributors to the enlightenment. It doesn't really work anywhere else in science; you know what I mean? The extreme case is we'll divide the world into water type compartments for the purposes of tractability and comprehension and proceed from there. In order to
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