How Not To Ruin The Dinner Party: A Conversation with Sam Harris
The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum
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Do We Ruin the Dinner Party?
I think there's a perception among editors, television news producers that the public somehow is not able to metabolize complexity. So we can't take any risks if we want to stay on the right side of things and, and be, you know, release some kind of coherent message. I was struck by somebody like Brett Weinstein, who was on Tucker Carlson talking about vaccines. He's making a nuanced point. That is a point about the coronavirus vaccine that strikes me as something worth thinking about. But the question is, is it mostly worth thinking about in a classroom or a medical conference, as opposed to on Tucker Carlson, where it's subject to mass interpretation? We've run one
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