Been reading a lot of articles from the "Nudge"/Ted Talk era recently and it's shocking how much anti-vaxx stuff comes up.https://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/1422131216128557056 …
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Also a lot of "sure climate change is real, but isn't over-reacting to the threat ... the real threat?" These were both common entries in the cool-contrarian playbook for more than a decade it's wild!
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TED talks are like, what if we gave platforms to insane people with bad ideas and made it appear like they're just misunderstood visionaries? And now we're trapped with people thinking they're geniuses.
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"We all KNOW that poverty is often about systemic inequality, right? Well, what if I told you that it's actually caused by genetics..."
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Wasn't that a big theme of the second Freakonomics book?
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Leading off with "global cooling" really drove home how Dubner and Levitt were writing takes in good faith.pic.twitter.com/xaxyZC6Ovq
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One of the things that I think will spawn a thousand dissertations in the next century — in the event humanity makes it there — is the utter bewildering insanity of Very Serious People just ignoring global heating for the key 15 years between 2001 and 2016.
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In retrospect a lot of the TED stuff is basically "here's why these pressing social issues don't require anything inconvenience of you, the audience at this exclusive event which is then broadcast on the internet via a luxury automobile sponsorship."
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Are you familiar with the YouTuber HBomberGuy? Because he has very good episodes about both of these topics with a delightful level of comedic chaos
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She’s come up a lot your “you’re wrong about” podcast. But it’s worth pointing out that Oprah is part of the story why anti-vaccine stuff got mainstreamed (won’t even get into Dr. Phil). She’s a treasure, but she has a role in pushing pseudo science when it comes to medicine.
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The Skeptical Environmentalist was also published in 1998.
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