Operation Confirmation Bias

Outside/In

NHPR

Society & Culture, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Today on the podcast, a story that seemed like a perfect fit Outside/In that wound up going places that we didn’t expect to go. When workers at the American embassy Cuba claimed to have been attacked by a mysterious weapon that left no trace, it led to a major shift in American diplomacy towards the Caribbean socialist state. But the story has also led to a split in journalism, stemming from the sources different kinds of journalists rely on. This story forces us to ask: how do we decide what we know? What kinds of information we trust? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Heads up Outside In listeners. There is a swear in this episode. In fact, there are a couple in quick succession. Sorry about that.
0:09.0	Enjoy the episode.
0:11.0	Hello. Hello. Hello. This is so exciting.
0:14.0	Is it exciting?
0:15.0	It is for me. I'm the least outdoorsy person who works here.
0:18.0	So for me it's exciting.
0:19.0	This is so very barely an outside in episode.
0:23.0	Fabulous.
0:24.2	My favorite kind.
0:25.2	Can you introduce yourself?
0:26.2	I'm Rebecca Lervoy.
0:27.2	I'm the digital director here at NHPR.
0:29.2	You also qualified because of your true crime.
0:31.9	Oh yes, I'm also a true crime author and I host a true crime adjacent
0:35.5	podcast called Crime Writers On. That is probably going to be the skill set that's most applicable
0:39.6	to this story. Oh I can't wait. And of course Taylor could be. Hey, what's my, what's my utility in this story?
0:46.0	Buffer?
0:48.0	Skepticism. Okay, are you ready for a story? Sure.
0:52.0	Yeah. This is a story? Sure.
0:52.7	This is a story that you've probably heard.
0:54.1	If this was indeed an attack,
0:56.5	how might it have been launched?
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