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#119 An Epidemic of Sophistry (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

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Is There a Good Hypothesis?

When something becomes corrupt, the thing people do not necessarily ento it is that it becomes often very powerful in protecting itself. If you have a corrupt department that is supposed to be innovating things, then it will do a poor job because it's really feathering somebody's nest or advancing someone's political interests. This is true for fields as well. Academic fields, as they become corrupt, become surprisingly easy to beat. The more corrupt the field it is, the easier it is to beat it. As corruption takes over something, you have to find a reason to dismiss people who are finding the thing that is corrupt easy to beat,. So you dismiss them on the basis that they are a

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