Scientist Exposes the Reality of "Follow the Science" | Brian Keating Interview

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 31 October 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to “Into the Impossible” author Dr. Brian Keating about the dangers of treating science as a religion, how we became slaves to phrases like “follow the science,” and why imposter syndrome has plagued many Nobel Prize winners. Brian discusses why rigorous data gathering and the questioning of “experts” is vital to scientific progress. Brian also shares the discoveries of Nobel Prize winner Sheldon Lee Glashow and why you should be skeptical of anything about which 99% of scientists are in agreement. He explains how John C. Mather’s discoveries related to microwave background radiation solidified the Big Bang Theory, the significance of Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000-hour rule, and how we can achieve mastery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is a distinguished professor of physics at the Center for Astrophysics
0:13.0	and Space Sciences at UC San Diego, an author of the new book Into the Impossible Think
0:19.8	Like a Nobel Prize winner, Brian Keating.
0:22.8	Finally, welcome to the Rubin Report.
0:25.1	Thank you, Dave.
0:26.1	You were my first big guest on my podcast.
0:27.8	So it's nice to return the favor.
0:29.4	I know you've been looking forward to having a big guest like me on for a while.
0:34.2	I've wanted a man of science on for quite some time.
0:38.4	No, I've wanted to talk to you for a while on the show because I think this will be a little
0:41.7	bit different than the shows that we normally do, but framing one thing sort of politically
0:47.9	just to jump us off as a man of science and as a man that just wrote a book about how
0:53.8	scientists approach science.
0:57.0	What do you make of the state of science at the moment?
1:00.8	Science is getting pretty banged up these days.
1:03.5	Yeah, it's tough.
1:04.5	I used to say I enjoy being an astronomer because there's no Republican asteroids.
1:09.8	There's no Democratic comets.
1:11.6	There's no, it's apolitical, but it's become incredibly politicized as you point out.
1:16.2	I always point out that the word science in Latin, I know you're a scholar, so you'll
1:20.2	know this.
1:21.2	Word science means knowledge.
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