Sam Harris speaks with Zeynep Tufekci about the problem of misinformation and group-think. They discuss the Covid-19 pandemic, the early failures of journalists and public health professionals to make sense of it, the sociology of mask wearing, the problem of correcting institutional errors, Covid as a dress rehearsal for something far worse, asymmetric information warfare, failures of messaging about vaccines, the paradox of scientific authority, the power of incentives, how to reform social media, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe.

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#233 — The Groves of Misinformation

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Sam Harris Episodes Around February 2, 2021

#219 — The Power of Compassion

#220 - The Information Apocalypse

#221 — Success, Failure, & the Common Good

#222 — A Pandemic of Incompetence

#223 — A Conversation with Andrew Sullivan

#224 — The Key to Trump's Appeal

#225 — Republic of Lies

#226 — The Price of Distraction

#227 — Knowing the Mind

Making Sense with Sam Harris

#228 — Doing Good

#229 — A Few Thoughts for a New Year

#230 — An Insurrection of Lies

#231 — Crossing the Abyss

#232 — Inequality and Revolution

#233 — The Groves of Misinformation

#234 — The Divided Mind

#235 — A Call from Ricky Gervais

#236 — Rebooting New York City

#237 — Another Call from Ricky Gervais

#238 — How to Build a Universe

#239 — Yet Another Call from Ricky Gervais

#240 — The Boundaries of Self

#241 — Final Thoughts on Free Will

#242 — Psychedelics and the Self

#243 — A Few Points of Confusion

#244 — Food, Climate, and Pandemic Risk

#245 — Can We Talk About Scary Ideas?

#246 — Police Training & Police Misconduct

#247 — Constructing Minds

Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse

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