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#161: They’re Making Our Point (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

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Is There a Predictive Hypothesis?

The idea that anybody knows what's true about COVID and therefore that we can say that those other things must be false comes from work in which people have deployed a hypothesis. If you didn't have a predictive hypothesis in the first place then what you've collected aren't data they're not a test of anything. The fact that many people who are purportedly doing science don't understand the distinction means that some person at the Brookings Institute with a PhD in something political doesn't understand it maybe isn't that surprising but it's going to destroy the planet. Like this level of of the combination of like deviousness and ignorance is devastating to discourse and to our sense.

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