Peter Attia· MD
so in that case I think I would hope that the young person out there or even older person out there who really wants to get good at science and scientific thinking put themselves through the hard filter that is a formal rigorous education in that thing that the beauty of looking at things through the lens of biology or through the lens of Science and experimentation is that really it is Essence your goal is to falsify your own what you think are best right and then this gets to the complete other end of the spectrum so that the listener doesn't assume for a moment we're just sitting here being elitist saying you shouldn't be the ones talking about science if you don't have a background I'm going to bring it right back to Ben's comment to you when he had his Epiphany which is the medical profession doesn't know that much well exactly and I think that you know I can't speak for Ben but I do remember most of what he said um to me anyway and it's very clear that scientific literacy in the general public does not require a formal education in science if you I think it was Max dilbrook that said assume zero knowledge and infinite intelligence I think about that all the time I believe that people are curious and that if you give them the raw materials to understand what you're about to tell them they can understand pretty much everything I know there's the whole Feynman quote of you know if you can't explain it to a six-year-old then you don't really understand it that's true I also think that you can take adults or younger people and educate them you give them a