Doctor Mike

It's a problem.

For sure, it's a problem.

Plus, there's all kinds of... There's too many cases where...

I mean, doctors are people too.

And doctors can get into fads and panics too.

I mean, this whole idea that we hold doctors up to be outside the culture, that's insane.

In what way?

Well, it's insane.

It's like, well, the doctor, even if there's a fad and a panic about something about the coronavirus epidemic or about anything that's going around about medicine that...

that doctors fall into particular modes of thinking that might or might not be correct, just like the rest of us do, because we're open to these fads and panics, but to hold doctors up as being beyond that, as somehow not being beholden to these cultural trends, that's an unreasonable thing.

That means we need to be discerning when we're dealing with our doctors as well and not put faith in them as if they were faith healers.

I'm more on the free speech side, a lot more on the free speech side.

I'm a center-right capitalist and teaches at Harvard.

Full of conservatives up there.

And the truth is that I think that we can handle all kinds of information.

And the answer to speech that's incorrect is not banning it.

It's more speech is what we need.

We need more information.

I think we can actually handle that.

And the problem with the whole cancel culture that we have that was originally very much of a left-wing phenomenon, and now, of course, it's a right-wing phenomenon, too, because everybody's got to get into the party of cancel culture.