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Emily Unleashed

著者： Emily Kaplan
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  • Emily Unleashed: A Critical Thinking Show for The Broken Science Initiative Critical thinking is in the toilet. Americans, lacking the will to challenge conventional wisdom, are blindly deferring more and more autonomy to perceived authorities. Curiosity and a healthy rebellious attitude, once a mainstay in the American zeitgeist, are now perceived as dangerous traits. Individuals who challenge authority face dire consequences including public humiliation, private isolation, job loss, and excommunication from their peer-groups. If we’re to have any hope of returning to a nation of innovators, creators and a people who believe in the rights of the individual over the consensus of a few in power this fear-based mindset needs to be called out and rectified. Unleashed will feature prominent guests in art and science who exemplify the antidote to these problems. In some cases their willingness to revolutionize their own industry has led to wild success and in others it has led to being canceled–and in some cases both outcomes are true. The goal of the interviews will be to showcase how these individuals recognized a problem, or a lacking in the current offerings, and felt compelled to change things. Curating a mixture of guests that range industries from science to art, Unleashed will (hopefully) create a narrative theme that rebelling against the norm is often necessary and is the only path to progress. We hope to encourage listeners to ask questions, consider how they might improve their own lives by doing things their way, rather than simply falling in line. Agency is a key element in building a revolution of critical thinkers; people need to believe they have the right to ask for information, admit when they don’t understand, and feel entitled to answers from those dictating demands. Our guests will tell our audience how and why they stood up and called for change. Providing the public with examples of real people who have done this gives the audience a vision of what being brave in the face of opposition looks like. It should, if done properly, inspire people to replicate these examples and support those in the trenches. In turn, I hope we raise a new army of thinkers who recognize that curiosity and standing up for what you believe in is directly tied to our innate sense of free will and without it, we succumb to a life as automatons deferring all our power to arbitrary sources of authority. As the host of Unleashed, I bring a few important cards to the game. As a former investigative reporter who has reported for newspapers, magazines, written columns and as one of the youngest producers at 20/20 and Primetime where I covered murder and medical mysteries, I have experience with deep-dive interviews and can get down to the crux of these issues. In my role as the founder of The Kleio Group, I have helped people who have been canceled for standing up to authorities. I see how these takedowns work, what strategies are implemented and how to combat them. I am one of the few people who worked in the media and saw how it was being weaponized against critical thinking. I left because of this deterioration of balance, fact checking and what I saw as an overly politicized agenda being forced on newsrooms. I pivoted from giving voice to the voiceless as a reporter to helping those being wrongly maligned by the media. My extensive work covering health and medicine plays a prominent role in my work as co-founder of The Broken Science Initiative. I am well practiced at reading medical studies, pointing out, in simple ways, why they’re misleading, poorly designed, making claims of significance they cannot make, etc. With the same approach I take to deconstructing medical studies, I will apply a similar framework to interviews with artists, comedians, musicians, and business leaders. We will consider why their ideas were so controversial at the time, why the threat of their novel approach rued feathers and how they handled it. In some cases, the guests changed paradigms and we will examine how the ideas that were once controversial are now commonly held and widely accepted. We will discuss what that experience taught them. It will also be interesting to get into how they’ve changed since their days of rebellion, do they still hold those same values and where do they come from? What advice do they have for a young rebel? What would the current state be if they hadn’t had the impact they had? And, for those that were canceled, we’ll get into what they would have done differently, if anything, and what they learned from the experience. We’ll discuss what their ideas were based on and when the culture/industry/environment might accept them and how even if they don’t become a part of the conventional wisdom, the introduction of the ideas played a pivotal role in the conversation at-large. The broad range of guests for this show exemplifies the critical criteria common in all creative thinkers. Musicians...
    2023
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Emily Unleashed: A Critical Thinking Show for The Broken Science Initiative Critical thinking is in the toilet. Americans, lacking the will to challenge conventional wisdom, are blindly deferring more and more autonomy to perceived authorities. Curiosity and a healthy rebellious attitude, once a mainstay in the American zeitgeist, are now perceived as dangerous traits. Individuals who challenge authority face dire consequences including public humiliation, private isolation, job loss, and excommunication from their peer-groups. If we’re to have any hope of returning to a nation of innovators, creators and a people who believe in the rights of the individual over the consensus of a few in power this fear-based mindset needs to be called out and rectified. Unleashed will feature prominent guests in art and science who exemplify the antidote to these problems. In some cases their willingness to revolutionize their own industry has led to wild success and in others it has led to being canceled–and in some cases both outcomes are true. The goal of the interviews will be to showcase how these individuals recognized a problem, or a lacking in the current offerings, and felt compelled to change things. Curating a mixture of guests that range industries from science to art, Unleashed will (hopefully) create a narrative theme that rebelling against the norm is often necessary and is the only path to progress. We hope to encourage listeners to ask questions, consider how they might improve their own lives by doing things their way, rather than simply falling in line. Agency is a key element in building a revolution of critical thinkers; people need to believe they have the right to ask for information, admit when they don’t understand, and feel entitled to answers from those dictating demands. Our guests will tell our audience how and why they stood up and called for change. Providing the public with examples of real people who have done this gives the audience a vision of what being brave in the face of opposition looks like. It should, if done properly, inspire people to replicate these examples and support those in the trenches. In turn, I hope we raise a new army of thinkers who recognize that curiosity and standing up for what you believe in is directly tied to our innate sense of free will and without it, we succumb to a life as automatons deferring all our power to arbitrary sources of authority. As the host of Unleashed, I bring a few important cards to the game. As a former investigative reporter who has reported for newspapers, magazines, written columns and as one of the youngest producers at 20/20 and Primetime where I covered murder and medical mysteries, I have experience with deep-dive interviews and can get down to the crux of these issues. In my role as the founder of The Kleio Group, I have helped people who have been canceled for standing up to authorities. I see how these takedowns work, what strategies are implemented and how to combat them. I am one of the few people who worked in the media and saw how it was being weaponized against critical thinking. I left because of this deterioration of balance, fact checking and what I saw as an overly politicized agenda being forced on newsrooms. I pivoted from giving voice to the voiceless as a reporter to helping those being wrongly maligned by the media. My extensive work covering health and medicine plays a prominent role in my work as co-founder of The Broken Science Initiative. I am well practiced at reading medical studies, pointing out, in simple ways, why they’re misleading, poorly designed, making claims of significance they cannot make, etc. With the same approach I take to deconstructing medical studies, I will apply a similar framework to interviews with artists, comedians, musicians, and business leaders. We will consider why their ideas were so controversial at the time, why the threat of their novel approach rued feathers and how they handled it. In some cases, the guests changed paradigms and we will examine how the ideas that were once controversial are now commonly held and widely accepted. We will discuss what that experience taught them. It will also be interesting to get into how they’ve changed since their days of rebellion, do they still hold those same values and where do they come from? What advice do they have for a young rebel? What would the current state be if they hadn’t had the impact they had? And, for those that were canceled, we’ll get into what they would have done differently, if anything, and what they learned from the experience. We’ll discuss what their ideas were based on and when the culture/industry/environment might accept them and how even if they don’t become a part of the conventional wisdom, the introduction of the ideas played a pivotal role in the conversation at-large. The broad range of guests for this show exemplifies the critical criteria common in all creative thinkers. Musicians...
2023
社会科学 科学
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  • Ep 8: Anton Garrett

    Ep 8: Anton Garrett
    2024/10/30

    Historically, physicists like Ed Jaynes and his predecessors championed probability theory as an essential tool in scientific inquiry. Garrett argues that scientists are often better positioned than statisticians to innovate in statistical methods because these methods are meant to be practical tools rather than theoretical endpoints.

    Contrasting the Bayesian and frequentist approaches, Garrett advocates for Bayesian methods, explaining that they allow scientists to incorporate prior knowledge, which is crucial for practical applications, like estimating probabilities in drug trials or climate science. Unfortunately, frequentist methods dominate, partly due to historical momentum but often fall short in high-stakes or complex fields where a nuanced understanding of uncertainty is needed. Kaplan and Garrett touch on real-world examples, like the insurance industry’s implicit Bayesian methods and the successful use of Bayesian techniques in finding submarines.

    Touching on the broader implications of “postmodern” science, Garrett identifies meta-analysis and underpowered datasets as culprits for non-replicability, especially in biomedical sciences. He contrasts this with the relative rigor of physics, which benefits from fewer variables and more mathematical control.
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    20 分
  • Bonus Episode: Anton Garrett & James Franklin

    Bonus Episode: Anton Garrett & James Franklin
    2024/10/16

    In this bonus episode James Franklin interviews Anton Garrett about his connections to major figures in probability theory, particularly E.T. Jaynes and David Stove. Garrett used Jaynes's work on probability to solve problems in statistical mechanics during his doctorate at Cambridge and Jaynes led him to the work of R.T. Cox. Cox showed that the rules of probability are essential for true-or-false propositions, providing a foundation for objective probability theory.

    Garrett knew Jaynes as a shy but brilliant physicist who applied the "maximum entropy method" to astrophysics, leading to significant advancements in deblurring images. He also recalls Jaynes’s love for music and his quiet demeanor, contrasting with his confident academic writing.

    The two also discuss David Stove, whom Garrett met at the University of Sydney. Stove criticized Karl Popper’s philosophy of science, arguing that Popper's rejection of inductive logic was flawed. Stove believed that induction, when done correctly, aligns with probability theory and is essential to scientific reasoning.

    Garrett also reflects on Stove's concerns about political correctness (or "woke culture") in academia, which he believes is damaging free thought.
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    27 分
  • Ep 7: James Franklin

    Ep 7: James Franklin
    2024/10/15

    In Episode 7, Emily sits down with James Franklin, an Australian philosopher and mathematician. James was a student of David Stove in the 1970s, and later, a close friend. Emily and James dig into Stove’s work on logical probability and philosophy of science, particularly his critique of David Hume's skepticism regarding induction.

    During the left-wing activism of the 1970s David Stove's politically conservative views led him to be an outsider, with it taking years for his ideas to gain recognition. His polemical book, Popper and After (https://www.amazon.com/Popper-After-F..., criticized influential philosophers like Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn, calling them "irrationalists." Popper’s idea that scientific theories could only be falsified, not confirmed, was particularly targeted by Stove, arguing that this undermined the rationality of science, reducing scientific progress to sociological factors rather than evidence. Franklin elaborates on how Stove believed this probabilistic reasoning was essential in fields like science and law.

    In addition to discussing Stove, Franklin talks about his own academic work, particularly in logical probability, philosophy of science, mathematics, and ethics. He has written extensively on the objective basis of these fields, arguing for the existence of absolute truths in areas ranging from scientific reasoning to moral philosophy. Franklin’s latest book on ethics, The Worth of Persons: The Foundations of Ethics (https://www.amazon.com/Worth-Persons-..., asserts that ethical truths are grounded in the inherent value of human beings, rejecting relativism in favor of objective moral necessity.
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    44 分

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