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The Lonely Beard #3 - How to Respond to Experts Who Say Things That Sound Wrong
enNovember 04, 2018
About this Episode
It doesn't take much time on social media before you'll find someone reflexively ridiculing an expert who said something they disagree with on some political or ideological topic. Maybe we should not do that most of the time.
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