Within academia there's an insider saying about the 3-tiered letters of achievement ladder in recognition of one's degree of intellectual prowess. It goes something like this, BS = Bullsh@t, MS = More Sh#t and PhD = Piled high & Deep. A humorous rendition for sure, but, unfortunately, spot on!
Many of us who suffered the hallowed halls of higher education soon-after developed acute 'buyers remorse'. Fortunately, the veils of deception grow thinner daily revealing that all that we were taught was up-side down. Our special guest for this episode, Mark Goble, is here to lend his perspective on whether we should "just trust the science".
Mark Gober is the author of “An End to Upside Down Thinking” (2018), which won the IPPY award for best science book of the year. He is also the author of “An End to Upside Down Living” (2020), “An End to Upside Down Liberty” (2021), “An End to Upside Down Contact” (2022), “An End to the Upside Down Reset” (2023), “An End to Upside Down Medicine”
(2023); and “An End to the Upside Down Cosmos” (2024); and he is the host of the podcast “Where Is My Mind?” (2019).
Mark serves on the board of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, was a partner at Sherpa Technology Group in Silicon Valley, and worked as an investment banking analyst with UBS in New York. He has been named one of IAM’s Strategy 300: The World’s Leading Intellectual Property Strategists. Gober graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, where he wrote an award-winning thesis on Daniel Kahneman’s Nobel Prize–winning “Prospect Theory” and was elected a captain of Princeton’s Division I tennis team.
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