How to reason about COVID, and other hard things (Kelsey Piper)
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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?
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