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Wednesday, June 01, 2022

Against the Rules Podcast Episode 7: The Person Who Knows

 

The United States had a pandemic plan. But when a pandemic came, we hesitated to follow it. The country was hobbled by argument and doubt. Much of that doubt came from experts who proposed that Covid might not be as lethal as scientists feared. Michael Lewis returns to the subject of his latest book, The Premonition, to understand why it's so hard to trust the truest signs of expertise: a willingness to follow the evidence.

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Highly recommended listening


See also:

Andrew Gelman (2020) Assessing Evidence vs. Truth in the Coronavirus Pandemic, CHANCE, 33:3, 58-60, DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2020.1820254




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