Bret Weinstein
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Sanjay Gupta was saying something nonsensical.
They were actually giving you advice that has a very clear mechanism by which it would make you more vulnerable to the disease that they think you should do everything in your power to make yourself less vulnerable to.
They're just simply not saying something analytically robust.
And I would also point out this question about whether or not Sam is responsible for people's deaths.
I want to do this carefully because I think it matters, and I know that you areβ I wouldn't say he is.
Here's how I would do it rigorously, okay?
I think the discussion, a robust, open discussion about aβ
complex set of facts, that discussion is how we find the truth, right?
The truth gives us an opportunity to become safer.
So my feeling is everybody gets credit for participating.
Anybody who participates in good faith in the conversation about what the right thing to do is, is part of the solution, even the people who get it wrong.
However, as soon as you start making the argument that you're wrong and that means you're putting people's lives in jeopardy, my feeling is, well, then you're changing the rules.
You're setting a standard that we have to be right or we're responsible for whatever deaths might befall us.
We have to do more than just participate in good faith in the conversation.
So that means, Sam, when you're wrong,
You become responsible for the deaths that resulted from your bad advice.
You wouldn't have been responsible in the first place, except that you decided these were the rules of engagement.
You decided that the people who were wrong in the argument are responsible for the deaths.