Scientific Qualifications: What Aravind Srinivas feels Science demands from (Good) Scientists

The only thing that’s required to be a good scientist is intellectual humility, to understand that you could be wrong about things, things that everyone takes for granted — you could still question them, and when you’re presented with new evidence and new data you are willing to change your mind, and you are willing to operate with ambiguity and uncertainty about the world, … that’s basically all the qualities you need to be a scientist.

Aravind Srinivas, Joe Rogan Experience #2521 [1:23:45 – 1:24:10]

I think at the end of the day: that’s populism

Under populism the feeling is very strong that they work for us — and they answer to us. And with these mainstream administrations — whether it’s Obama, Biden, George W. Bush, … — it’s like: well, the wise men are running the government, so we need to sit by quietly and let them do their important work.

John Kiriakou , Joe Rogan Experience #2392 , 2:13:05 – 2:13:38 (image clipped @ 2:12:40)