One of my most significant and hard-won learnings over the past ten years has been that conventional education is useless - even counterproductive - in combating pseudoscience in a polarized society. I've touched on it hear and a few of you have heard far too much from me. So rather than more from me here's Atul Gawande's commencement address at Caltech last Friday. For those who prefer print (I usually feel something is lost), the transcript appears in The New Yorker ..
Caltech commencement addresses are often good.
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