You Gotta Believe

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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On the Gist, Trump's falsehoods. In the interview, Mikes talks with neuroscientist, Stanford University professor and best-selling author, David Eagleman, about his latest book Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain. Eagleman says that the way the brain is able to change and adapt to adversity is still inspiring new developments and new questions. In the spiel, making a political comeback. Email us at thegist@slate.com Podcast production by Margaret Kelley and Jamila Bey. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following program may contain explicit language.
0:03.1	It's Thursday, October 1, 2020, from Slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Pesca, New York Times
0:11.7	headline, President perpetuates falsehood study fines.
0:17.0	Oh, a study.
0:18.6	A rigorous study, eh?
0:21.1	But also besides, a double blind academic study might achieve such an insight, say perhaps
0:27.8	merely glancing attention?
0:30.2	How else would you find that the president perpetuates falsehood, maybe by occasionally
0:35.5	lapsing into an ad of a coma?
0:38.0	Over the last four years, you might glean that information just in your mere moments of
0:43.4	lucidity.
0:45.0	The study was a contribution to the sum of human knowledge.
0:48.8	In fact, actually, okay, more of a confirmation of the sum of human knowledge, it was about
0:54.1	two quotes in New York Times of the flood of misinformation, conspiracy theories and falsehood
0:58.2	seating the internet on the coronavirus.
1:00.3	One common thread stands out, President Trump.
1:03.6	They analyzed 38 million articles about the pandemic.
1:07.5	Mention of Mr. Trump made up nearly 38% of the overall misinformation conversation, which
1:16.0	is to be the name of the signature show running against Brett Baers once Trump found his
1:21.8	own news network.
1:23.3	All right, 38 million articles.
1:25.1	He was 38% of them.
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