Scientific consensus on vaccinations is that they are proven to be effective and beneficial for protecting public health.
“in the face of science fact the thing about vaccinations is uh they are proven to work you everybody enjoys his or her pasturized milk and the other thing to remember uh not only are vaccinations designed to protect your kid from diseases but they're they're designed to protect my kids from your kid”
StarTalk · May 2014 · 1 episode · 124K views on this topicScientific theories can remain true descriptions of reality even when our vocabulary for explaining them evolves over time.
“We don't know what the world is at a deep fundamental level. Let's put ourselves in the minds of people living 200 years ago. They didn't know about quantum mechanics. They didn't know about relativity. That doesn't mean they were wrong about the universe, that they understood.”
Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2024 · 1 episode · 4.4M views on this topicPeter Attia believes that focus on objective and strategy provides a framework that allows scientific information to remain relevant even as specific tactics change over time.
“I think it's very framework focused which I think lends to a more Timeless piece because Frameworks or scaffoldings are there upon which to place information and substitute information so if the framework says delay the time that you do not have disease that's relatively Timeless as a strategy”
The Peter Attia Drive · Mar 2023 · 1 episode · 32K views on this topicThe IPCC should not engage in direct debates within the bloggerosphere or social media to avoid jeopardizing its reputation for impartiality.
“If we were to engage in in in the bloggerosphere it's not what you it's what you could lose that we're worried about not what you could actually win. There are huge risks there because it it could effectly you know affect people's uh perception of us if we are perceived to be on one side or another ”
Zero: The Climate Race · Mar 2026 · 1 episode · 448 views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
Complete months · first on record May 2014