#302 — Science & Civilization

Sam Harris speaks with Neil deGrasse Tyson about his new book,
Starry Messenger. They discuss what makes science a unique human
endeavor, the tension between respecting scientific consensus and
overturning it, confusion about paradigm shifts and scientific
controversies, the social importance of probability and
statistics, climate change, the consequences of exponential
cultural change, social media, social inequality and affirmative
action, identity politics and a post-racial future, the wisdom of
focusing on class rather than race, and other topics.



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