Sam Harris

Like if you get cancer and you're talking to one oncologist and they're recommending some course of treatment, by all means, get a second opinion, get a third opinion, right?

But it matters that those opinions are coming from real experts and not from, you know,

Robert Kennedy Jr.

who's telling you that you got it because you got a vaccine, right?

We're swimming in a sea of misinformation where you've got people who are moving the opinions of millions of others

who should not have an opinion on these topics.

There is no scenario in which you should be getting your opinion about vaccine safety or climate change or...

the war in Ukraine, or anything else that we might wanna talk about from Candace Owens, right?

It's just like, she's not a relevant expert on any of those topics.

And what's more, she doesn't seem to care, right?

And she's living in a culture

that has amplified that not caring into a business model and an effective business model.

And there's something very Trumpian about all that.

The problem is the culture.

It's not these specific individuals.

So the paradox here is that expertise is a real thing.

And we defer to it a lot as a labor-saving device and just based on the reality that it's very hard to be a polymath, right?

And specialization is a thing, right?

And so there are people who specialize in a very narrow topic, they know more about that topic than the next guy, no matter how smart that guy or gal is, and that those differences matter.

But it's also true