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Special Episode: Interview with Stuart Ritchie on Hunter Gatherers in the 21st Century, covid skeptics, and bad science
Decoding the Gurus
Pandemic and the Experts Need a Bit More Criticism
In the uca, our scientists were planning a hird immunity strategy. We ere planning that 60 % ofthe population would catch cuvid and we needed to just let it burn through. And only when presented with the really cactrophic estimates fof how many people would die did they change their way. When i hear eric weinstein saying that stuff, i don't want to agree with him, but he does have a point. I don't think he should dismiss the fact that our faith in the experts should have been shaken quite a lot. That's before you get to what people in my field, psychology, were saying at the start of pan demic as well
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