After 20 years of working with uncertainty, i finally wrote a piece that has a sentence at summarizes everything i struggled to explain in my debate with the jonanides. I came oup with a sentence, science is not about evidence. Science is about properties. It's not about god forecast. So it's not bout details. For example, if you have abcess of evidencei you it still scientific to describe a process. And i'm thinking, whyse clinical data the only kind of evidence thatecet?
Nassim Nicholas Taleb talks about the pandemic with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Topics discussed include how to handle the rest of this pandemic and the next one, the power of the mask, geronticide, and soul in the game.