i think that there's going to be a reckoning. And i think one of the things at's very important to explain to listeners is that when scientists disagree, that's a feature, not a bug,. That's how science progresses. Like scientists disagreeing with each other is the process works. We test our ideas against the truth. The disagreement itself, we could have done a better job preparing the public to see that scientists might, for example, disagree about masking. But very quickly, we're going to do experiments, and we'll come to some consensus.
How do diseases and information spread? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice discover the history of pandemics, how social networks impact spread, and the hidden math behind it with sociologist Nicholas Christakis.
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