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190. Jonathan Rauch — The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

The Michael Shermer Show

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How Do We Know What We Know?

Sally Kohn: How do you settle disagreements of opinion in a productive way? Humans are wired to be very biased in all kinds of ways. Our biases don't cancel out. They actually can compound each other, she says. She argues that the only way to make knowledge is to check with people who are different from your selve and persuade them. And then they say, wait a minute. We can create a global scientific community of people checking each other's beliefs,. channelling their conflicts into organized efforts to figure out who's right and who's wrong.

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