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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Michael Lewis on why Americans distrust experts

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Weather Man - The Most Famous Man in Alabama

50 years ago, a famous weather man in Alabama knew basically nothing about the weather. Now he knows a great deal and his three day forecast is three times more accurate than it was 50 years ago. He's treated as if he's stupider than he ever was by people who don't understand that forecasts are probablistic. In medicine, talk to a doctor before coved. And this drops out of a book i did call the fifth risk, about the federal government which just kind of wandered off into its own self-sustaining crisis.

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