Ross Douthat on the Trouble with Experts
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How to Develop a Healvy Skepticism of the Prevailing Consensus
i think it's an important question, how you can develop a healvy scepticism of the prevailing consensus. And i think part of what might prepare the path or t is to have an analysis of why it is that the consensus ends up going wrong in certain kinds of areas. So your experience of lime as a ready interesting window into is larger dynamics. What do you think explains why the medical establishment ended up holding on to a set of views about the nature of e cause o e? I mean, obviously sor have thought about that a lot, and i think there are a few dynamics at work right?, he says.
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