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Ep. 502: "Dr. Guy"

Roderick on the Line

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The Problem With Power and Institutions

The problem with power is the ability to describe what makes something normal and therefore something I should care about or what makes it something abnormal. Ask yourself how much power whether that's insurance coverage we're talking about how the BMI you know came along which is a pretty fucking crazy story It doesn't mean anything it's meaningless but alsoHow do we arrive at 98.6 well we had a sample of like a handful of European men and we said oh they have probably the same temperature that must be it I run  96.9 every single one of these things, he says. "I'm gonna leave out a whole bunch of anecdotes and come down to one anecdote which is at least three or

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