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Censorship, cancel culture, and truth-seeking (with Iona Italia)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The Conflict Around Controversial Research
I think I feel genuine conflict around a lot of the stuff because I think that without a more critically thinking society, people really do tend to misinterpret things. And then that makes it more risky to put ideas out there if you're like, well, but I know bad people are going to use this idea to harm people. So many discoveries have been certain diptus, particularly medicine actually, and come from research into something completely different which has turned out to be very important in a completely different sphere. To take a sort of trivial example, Biagra, which was developed as a hard medicine, I think, which is now improving the quality of life of many, many, many couples,
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