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#194 – Bret Weinstein: Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There Value in Allowing People to Destroy Other's Lives?

There's an interesting line between ideas like the Earth is flat, which I believe you should not censor. And then you start to encroach on personal attacks. So doxing yes, but not even getting to that. There's a certain point where it's like, that's no longer ideas,. That's somehow not productive, even if it's wrong. It feels like believing the Earth isflat is somehow productive. Because maybe there's a tiny percent chance it is. It just feels like personal attacks. But then again, do you trust the majority to vote on what is crossing the line and not?

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