When?
Monday, April 27 at 7:00PM
Where?
Who?
Richard Wilson
What's the talk about?
Given the disasters, human and financial, that can result when governments lose their grip on reality, it's arguably in politics that skepticism matters most. Yet from Thabo Mbeki's disastrous dalliance with AIDS denial in South Africa, to the delusions that led to the Iraq war, our politicians often seem perilously credulous. In "Don't Get Fooled Again", Richard Wilson looks at why it is that intelligent, educated people end up time and again falling for ideas that turn out to be nonsense, and makes the case for skeptics to be actively engaged with the political process.
Richard Wilson lives in London, has a degree in philosophy, and works for a human rights organisation. His first book, "Titanic Express", recounts his search for the truth about the death of his sister, an aid worker killed in Burundi in 2000. While researching the book he was asked "but do you really think there is such a thing as the truth about what happened?"
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