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Podcast: Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show
Episode: Vehemently Suspect of Heresy
Description: [A] new consensus has emerged in the press… that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else. – Bari Weiss
Remember when scientific truth wasn’t just ignored or laughed at, but instead, we threw a bunch of leading scientists and philosophers and thinkers into prisons? Or just burned them at the stake for their heretical ideas. The basic reason wasn’t that the science or the thinking or the ideas themselves was “bad,” it was that it “explicitly contradicts in many places the sense...