#256 — A Contagion of Bad Ideas

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

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4.6 • 29.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Eric Topol about vaccine hesitancy and related misinformation. They discuss the problem of political and social siloing, concerns about mRNA vaccines, the Emergency Use Authorization by the FDA, the effectiveness of the COVID vaccines, vaccine efficacy vs effectiveness, the Delta variant, the misuse of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), concerns about long-term side effects from vaccines, bad incentives in medicine, ivermectin, government and corporate censorship, vaccine mandates, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense podcast.
0:24.8	This is Sam Harris.
0:27.8	Okay, well today's podcast is yet another PSA.
0:33.2	There have been many of them of late.
0:36.2	Needless to say, if you want to support what I'm doing here, the way to do that is to
0:41.0	subscribe to the podcast at samherst.org.
0:45.8	It's really the subscribers that make all of this possible.
0:50.0	But given the kinds of topics I touch here, it's with some regularity that I feel the need
0:54.3	to put out a podcast in a form where the most people will hear every word of it.
1:02.3	And today the topic that could not suffer a paywall is what is now universally described
1:08.8	as vaccine hesitancy and the general condition of misinformation and disinformation that surrounds
1:16.5	vaccines in general, but the COVID mRNA vaccines in particular.
1:23.1	I think anyone who has listened to the podcast in the last year or so will have no doubt
1:27.8	about where I stand on the topic of the COVID vaccines.
1:32.3	But I haven't focused on it because it seemed like there really has not been all that
1:37.0	much to say.
1:39.3	And it's just a general error of futility around persuading anyone who has decided for
1:46.0	one reason or another that they're really worried about the COVID vaccines and not all
1:52.5	that worried about COVID.
1:54.9	That's the bifurcation here.
1:56.8	We have a very large cohort in our society who think that COVID is not an especially big
2:05.3	deal.
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