0:00 The problem with scientific consensus

6:36 Why Jay and his colleagues were branded “fringe epidemiologists”

15:52 Jay: We need to engage with everyone—even those with mistaken beliefs

25:55 Persuading science skeptics

36:04 How do we stop COVID overreach from happening again?

46:38 Jay: Gain-of-function research is impossible to do safely

55:03 Are some ideas too dangerous to test?

59:30 Jay: Fauci’s blunder was so catastrophic that only history can judge him

Recorded June 23, 2023

Links and Readings

Rav Arora and Jay’s newsletter, The Illusion of Consensus

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

The Great Barrington Declaration

Steve Koonin’s book, Unsettled: What Climate Science Asks Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters

Steve Koonin’s TGS appearance

Tjalling Koopman’s, Three Essays on the State of Economic Science

Emily Oster’s Atlantic piece, “Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty”

The Norfolk Group Document

Glenn’s paper, “Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of ‘Political Correctness’ and Related Phenomena”

Richard Feynman demonstrates flaws in Challenger’s O-rings

Roger Shattuck’s book, Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography

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