Sense-making on vaccines and young kids, recognizing groupthink, removing ideology and personal attack from scientific discourse, and much more.
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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
0:15 We turn science debate into good vs. evil, why?
6:27 Understanding FDA decision on kids vaccines 5-11, myocarditis etc.
12:49 The “Retrospectoscope” and our takes on COVID over the months
16:17 The origins of COVID politicization and Tribalism
25:41 Should we not treat unvaxxed people or shame unmasked children?
28:13 Having compassion for those who misbehave or attack
31:21 The fragility of wishing contrary opinions would disappear
36:38 Recognizing our cognitive biases when engaging in sense-making
40:21 My experience working in genetics with Drosophila fruit flies
43:06 How COVID broke our brains and sense-making ability: masks
47:05 Social media attacks, virtue signaling, performative vulnerability, dealing with emotion via social media
56:31 Equanimity, desire, aversion, and the roots of suffering
1:00:00 Connection and positive feedback
1:01:43 Joe Rogan and Sanjay Gupta, Ivermectin
1:06:00 Hydroxychloroquine and the importance of randomized trials
1:08:00 Is The Temple of Doom racist? The nature of the times in determining appropriateness
1:09:29 The nature and art of comedy
1:11:06 Squid Game and the darkness of our times
1:14:26 What people can do to decrease polarization
1:15:23 Vaccine Mandates: the consequences for healthcare and politics
1:17:00 Waking up as a society to what matters, how we let people die alone
1:20:21 Why doctors put out such shitty YouTube content and what it really MEANS to be in medicine, the nature of real mentorship
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