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Episode 1: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Experts

The Theory of Anything

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Why I Don't Debate Science

i love sabina hossenfelder, she's a very iconoclastic person herself. She said in one of her tweets, i am debating me a little bit on this. Her point is that politicians and by extensions, the electorate, are there to decide what to do based on facts, not to debate the facts. There isn't an inherent problem with trying to teach to even in something like climate change, which is a terribly complex science. Even an above average person is very opaque, right? But the simple truth is, is that you're just not going to make a lot of progress with people if you try to act like scientists or some sort of priesthood,.Even specific

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