Rationally Speaking   /     How to reason about COVID, and other hard things (Kelsey Piper)

Summary

Kelsey Piper (Vox) shares lessons from covering COVID: What has she been wrong about? How much can we trust the CDC? How good is the evidence for drugs like Fluvoxamine or Ivermectin? Should people try to evaluate evidence themselves - or defer to experts?

Subtitle
Journalist Kelsey Piper (Future Perfect / Vox) discusses lessons learned from covering COVID: What has she been wrong about, and why? How much can we trust the CDC's advice? What does the evidence look like for different drugs like Fluvoxamine and...
Duration
01:17:55
Publishing date
2021-09-14 01:02
Link
http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/258-how-to-reason-about-covid-kelsey-piper
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Journalist Kelsey Piper (Future Perfect / Vox) discusses lessons learned from covering COVID: What has she been wrong about, and why? How much can we trust the CDC's advice? What does the evidence look like for different drugs like Fluvoxamine and Ivermectin? And should regular people really try to evaluate the evidence themselves instead of deferring to experts?