Sam Harris

that when you're talking about facts, sometimes the best experts are wrong.

The scientific consensus is wrong.

You get a sea change in the thinking of a whole field because one person who's an outlier for whatever reason decides, okay, I'm gonna prove this point and they prove it, right?

So somebody like,

the doctor who believed that stomach ulcers were not due to stress, but were due to H. pylori infections, right?

So he just drank a vial of H. pylori bacteria and proved, and then quickly got an ulcer and convinced the field that at minimum, H. pylori was involved in that process.

Okay, so yes, everyone was wrong.

That doesn't disprove

the reality of expertise.

It doesn't disprove the utility of relying on experts most of the time, especially in an emergency, especially when the clock is ticking, especially when you're in this particular cockpit and you only have one chance to land this plane, right?

You want the real pilot at the controls.

But there's just a few things to say.

Yeah.

Let me be clear.

I'm not saying...

you shouldn't do any research.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't be informed about an issue.

I'm not saying you shouldn't read articles on whatever the topic is.

And yes, if I got cancer or someone close to me got cancer, I probably would read more about cancer than I've read thus far about cancer.

And I've read some.