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Podcast: So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast
Episode: 'The Half-Life of Facts' with Samuel Arbesman
Description: Has every fact we've ever known undergone revision or reversal? It's a provocative and consequential idea, and one that complexity scientist Samuel Arbesman argues has some truth to it — even if he wouldn't state it that strongly. On today's episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we talk with Arbesman about his 2012 book, The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date. If facts about our world are constantly shifting, shouldn't the protection of free speech — the right to openly question the world and all we believe about it — become even m...