🎙️ Episode Title:
"Belief in Crisis: Neil Levy on Trust, Truth, and the Collapse of Expertise"
Why do smart people believe nonsense? 🤔 Has the word expert lost its meaning? And can we still trust institutions that have failed us? 🏛️
In this episode of Bendiksen Airways, I’m joined by Professor Neil Levy—Senior Research Fellow and author of Bad Beliefs: Why They Happen to Good People—to explore the current state of belief in society. 🧠 We discuss how cognitive biases, identity, and social dynamics shape what people think is true, and whether today’s growing distrust in institutions is warranted or dangerous. ⚖️
We also dive into the role of bullshit 💩 in public discourse, the failures of peer review 🧾, and what it might take to rebuild trust in a world where truth seems increasingly negotiable. 🌍
This is a conversation about philosophy, power, and the battle for epistemic authority in the 21st century. 📚💥
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