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We’ve Lost Touch With Reality and What Matters, but We Can Work to Reverse It

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We’ve Lost Touch With Reality and What Matters, but We Can Work to Reverse It
"Former high school teachers become famous writing as experts on COVID-19. Law professors become COVID-policy provocateurs. We love it, hungry for more," writes Shawn Whatley. The Canadian Press/Paul Chiasson
Shawn Whatley, MD
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Knowledge grows faster than our capacity to learn. Our own knowledge shrinks as a sliver of the total available. We risk becoming ignorant, provincial—ideological islands separated from all who disagree.

Shawn Whatley, MD
Shawn Whatley, MD
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Shawn Whatley is a practicing physician, author of “When Politics Comes Before Patients: Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing,” and a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. He is also a past president of the Ontario Medical Association.
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