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Episode 6: The Overconfidence Game

Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

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The Ultimate Profession Where You Really Get to Play God

A man named ferdinand waldo de maro, who had a gift for persuading people that he knew stuff that he did not. He falsified his credentials and ended up being the sole physician aboard this ship heading to corea during the war. Not only that, but he then ended up operating on a ship full of soldiers who'd been in an ambush. But we don't actually know what happened. You might see this impostor as an extreme example, but you might also see him as a case in point.

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