Are We Reversing Some Thoughts That We Used to Think Were Gods?

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Tyson: We thought we understood that ulcers related to stress and turns out it's a bug. A lot of things in medicine get reversed, he says. The question is whether these ideas have clearly changed or if they're just getting better at understanding them.

Chuck Klosterman, author of But What If We're Wrong, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the possibility that things we hold to be undeniably true may turn out to be totally false in the future. This wide-ranging conversation covers music and literary reputations, fundamentals of science, and issues of self-deception and illusion.