Dr. Steven Novella

Because then you're going to be checking yourself against other experts or just experts, you know, depending on where you are.

Right.

There's no quick way to do that.

There's just no quick way to do that.

It's a lot of work.

And depending on how complicated the question is, that process could be very complicated.

I mean, I've sometimes spent months doing a deep dive on a topic that was new to me before I felt like I should even talk about it at all.

So, I mean, for that long, I've done that recently on fusion, on battery technology.

I've done it on... The first one I did on was the thimerosal issue, right?

Like, the first time I heard that, it's like, okay, I'm...

I kind of know what I think the answer is here, but I'm going to not make any assumptions.

I'm just going to... I'm going to disprove my hypothesis.

Yeah, I'm going to read a few books.

And, you know, at first you're like, oh, there might be something to this.

There's a lot of information.

But let me keep digging, keep digging, keep digging.

And then after a few months of like really pouring through, it's like, okay, now I get it.

Now I get what's going on.

So that's constantly the case where you have to do it.

If you're going to talk about it in the public as like a communicator, you have to know it to that level.