The Michael Shermer Show

179. Niall Ferguson — Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

May 8, 2021
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
Doom, the Politics of Catastrophe by Nile Ferguson
02:10 • 4min
3
Pandemics - What We Can Learn From History
06:19 • 4min
4
What's Going Wrong With That Prediction Model?
10:37 • 4min
5
Pandemic
14:49 • 3min
6
The Guns Stand for Something Other
18:12 • 3min
7
Doomsday or Disaster?
21:01 • 5min
8
The Hindenburg, the Challenger and Iternoble
25:45 • 4min
9
The Challenger Disaster
29:28 • 3min
10
The Titanic Iceberg
32:04 • 5min
11
Is There a Pandemic of Artificial General Intelligence?
37:17 • 3min
12
Climate Change Is a Slow Moving Threat to Humanity
40:33 • 3min
13
Cassandras and Pollyannas
43:54 • 5min
14
Paranoia
49:23 • 5min
15
What Happened on Purpose?
53:57 • 2min
16
Why Do People Believe Conspiracy Theories as Being True?
55:38 • 4min
17
Cristopher Hitchins and the Kissinter Book
59:55 • 2min
18
Is the Bam Administration a War Criminal?
01:01:35 • 6min
19
What Should I Be Worried About?
01:07:29 • 4min
20
The U.S. Dollar and the US Treasury
01:11:41 • 2min
21
The US's Sewers Crisis
01:13:32 • 1min
22
We Can't Not Intervene Ever
01:15:02 • 4min
23
Is There a Free Market Solution to the Tech Problem?
01:18:58 • 2min
24
Are You a Conservative or a Republican?
01:21:21 • 3min
25
The Inflation Risk Is Obvious
01:24:43 • 2min
26
Can the Fed Control Inflation?
01:26:48 • 2min
27
Crypto Currency - The Next Big Thing?
01:28:58 • 2min
28
The Great Degeneration
01:31:24 • 3min
29
The World of Empires and City States
01:34:51 • 2min
30
A Kissenger, Volume Two S
01:36:24 • 2min
31
The Cold Face of Archival History Anda
01:38:12 • 34sec