Ignorance Is Not Objectivity

Hard Knox with Amanda Knox

Knox Robinson Productions

True Crime, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

What's the difference between bias and expertise? When a critic dismissed Amanda Knox's commentary on the Lucy Letby case as the grievance of a biased woman, the real question got buried: can lived experience be a form of expertise? And if so, what's the line between pattern recognition and confirmation bias? Amanda and Chris dig into the cognitive science, the structural failures of the justice system, and the countermeasures that might actually help us get it right. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	For ad-free episodes of Hard Knocks, subscribe at Amandanox.substack.com,
0:06.1	where you'll also find access to essays, bonus episodes, and more.
0:10.4	Enjoy.
0:13.4	Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus.
0:18.0	We're having a baby.
0:18.9	We're having a baby.
0:20.5	I've always wanted to be mom.
0:22.6	And we're bringing you on our journey through everything.
0:25.6	I have no idea what we're doing.
0:26.6	Thank you. I have more of an idea.
0:28.6	I think of it like a Tamagocchi.
0:30.6	At the end of all of this...
0:32.6	We're gonna have a little baby?
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0:54.8	Make that make sense.
0:55.9	It's hard to put into words, but...
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1:06.2	I'm Amanda Knox, and you're listening to Hard Knox.
1:28.9	I'm Amanda Knox and you're listening to Hard Knox. Welcome to another episode of musing with Amanda Knox where Chris tells me something you guys have been thinking about and then I think about it out loud for a while.
1:30.4	What are we talking about today?
1:38.8	Well, I noticed the other day on X, you had posted a thread about the Lucy Letby case.
1:44.9	This is relating to the podcast series Doubt, the case of Lucy Lettby that we've produced with IHart Radio.
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