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Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West on Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

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I'm a Pessimist

There was a chiropractor here in Washington in Woodinville who put out a pushed out a Facebook post around the decline or the lower numbers that the CDC was reporting. This reached all the way up to the leader of the free world to a tweet. And it's those kinds of things that actually make me more of a pessimist. But I still stick to my optimism than I do pessimism.

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