We've Been Trusting Scientists but Not Science

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We've been trusting scientists, but not science, that there's so much uncertainty around the pandamic. And we're living in a time now where we've had, you val evint on the programm talking about this at martin gory, expertis is dying. It's been betrayed to some extent by the practitioners. So everything's coun up for grabs down it's interesting to think about how policy and nudging are going to work in a world where people are really sceptical about what they used to trust know.

Author and economist Steven Levitt is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and host of the podcast "People I (Mostly) Admire." He is best known as the co-author, with Stephen Dubner, of Freakonomics. The book, published in 2005, became a phenomenon, selling more than 5 million copies in 40 languages. Levitt talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the book's surprising success, the controversy it generated, and how it shaped his career. Levitt says, for him, "economics is about going into the world and finding puzzles and thinking about how understanding incentives or markets might help us get a better grasp of what's really going on."