Evidence receipt / commitment
Published · transcript-backedTheodore Schwartz: commitment
21 May 2025 Conversations with Tyler Theodore Schwartz on Neurosurgery, Consciousness, and Brain-Computer Interfaces
“If you can show me better evidence, I will change my mind, but based on what I know now, this is what I’m saying.”
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- Speaker
- Theodore Schwartz
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- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- commitment
- Recorded
- 21 May 2025
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…We’re not in the long run now. Like the food pyramid — it used to tell us, in essence, eat more carbohydrates. It’s not obvious that was the right thing to say. It’s probably the wrong thing to have said. It was our best guess at that moment in time, based on the available evidence. That’s all science is. It’s our best guess based on the available evidence. Once that evidence changes, then we could all be wrong. I think the best scientist is the one who says, “This is how I do it now, but I could be completely wrong. If you can show me better evidence, I will change my mind, but based on what I know now, this is what I’m saying. ” And you think the process is that efficient?…
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