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#329 - What Happened to the Republican Party?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Trade-Offs in Public Messaging

There's a kind of paternalistic slash pragmatic impulse that you can see arising where officials, experts recognize that they are messaging into a circus of misinformation and half-truths. It was made especially difficult given how shattered our politics has become by the information siloing allowed by social media. But I think we would have been better served if public health officials from the get go had said had continuously emphasized what they don't know the limits of their certainty.

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