Eric Topol

Could it ever occur?

And he says, Godel says, yes, it can.

I can prove it.

And he's using the Constitution itself to prove it, which I found fascinating because, of course, we're seeing that emerge right now.

Can you give us a little bit more about this?

Because this is fascinating about, you know, the Fifth Amendment.

And I mean, I

I never thought that the constitution would allow for a dictatorship to, to emerge.

predicting that this could happen based on some, if you want to call it loopholes, if you will, or ability to change things, even though you would have thought otherwise that there wasn't any possible capability for that to happen.

Now, one of the things I thought was a bit contradictory is

There's two parts here.

One is from Angus Deaton.

He wrote, gold standard thinking is magical thinking.

And then the other is what you basically are concluding in many respects.

To navigate proof, we must reach into a thicket of errors and biases.

We must confront monsters, we've talked about a bit, and embrace uncertainty, balancing and rebalancing our beliefs.

We must seek out every useful fragment of data, gather every relevant tool, searching wider and climbing further, finding the good foundations among the bad, dodging dogma and falsehoods, questioning, measuring, triangulating, convincing.

Then perhaps, just perhaps,

will reach the truth in time.

So here you have, on the one hand, your search for the truth, proof, which I think that little paragraph says it all in many respects.