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#129: Rancid Frosting on a Rotten Cupcake (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

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How Do We Recapture Science?

Zac Patterson argues that we have arrived at a dark age in modern times. Specialization fractures knowledge into many different pieces and almost nobody has tried to put the pieces back together, he says. He offers six reasons why specialisation is bad for science: it plays into people's worst instincts around whom to trust; by putting them through sales training you take them out of their mind frame of falsification.; The lack of competent theorists who are able to synthesize knowledge into a coherent picture? And how does that work in real time? Is that relying on funding from external agencies or just an internal struggle over what scientists should be doing?

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