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#55 - Tim Urban of Wait But Why

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How to Disprove Political Dogma

I'm writing a post now that is kind of taking aim at political dogma. I mean, they're almost always wrong because in an echo chamber environment, there's no kind of like white blood cells to kill the virus. So everyone's agreeing, everyone's confirming and you have these bad stats to live on. And so I'm trying to take a bunch of those in this case and show that they're not true and show why we got there and how we think is. It's very much like pervasive how dogmatic we are and it needs to be said.

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