Ep. 2049 Saifedean Ammous and Tom on COVID Rationality, and Being Independent Academics
The Tom Woods Show
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Are Cow Farts Going to Boil the Ocean?
With all these sciences, there is a very strong incentive in the fiat world to go toward a panicking. There's zero downside for making any of the claims. And you just keep milking this forever. You can always be the hero who's fighting it. That's the only way to get more funding. We've been selecting, over decades, in all these fields, for these kinds ofa sensationis hysterical, a fear mongering conclusions.
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