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Hannah Fry: The Mathematician Who Knows Uncertainty Is Unavoidable

Medicine and the Machine

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Science and the Public's Reproducibility Crisis

I've really noticed a lot about scientists that there can be a bit of Snobbery about, about people who don't immediately understand things in the same way that scientists do. And arrogance actually I think. Scientists are just as capable as other people are making massive mistakes and misunderstanding things to point out one thing. So if you want to ensure that more people have vaccinated then you also need to not listen right. It means you can't just look down on people and call them idiots. That's why I don't want to do it. The experiment was essentially big brother, but it was seven unvaccinated individuals and me for a week. You have to leave room for the human element

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