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A Point of View: The End of the Line

28/02/2020

The End of the Line

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Adam Gopnik sets out to recalibrate our view of 'trusting the science'.

While in Covid quarantine, Adam Gopnik contemplates the shock of the pandemic which, he argues, has changed our lives more profoundly than any of us yet realise.

Adam Gopnik, recently recovered from his first bout of Covid, explores the profound impact of the pandemic on our whole belief system. 

'Covid acted as a kind of universal solvent,' Adam writes, 'dissolving pretty much everyone's expectations of what could happen in the world'. 

He looks in particular at the concept of ‘trusting the science’ and argues that ‘science is not a transaction of faith but of accumulated confidence’.

Producer: Adele Armstrong 
Sound: Peter Bosher 
Production coordinator: Iona Hammond
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

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