Joe Rogan Experience #1274 - Nicholas Christakis

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

March 28, 2019

Duration

2h 21m

Channel

The Joe Rogan Experience

Watch on YouTube

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Nicholas Christakis is a sociologist and physician known for his research on social networks and on the socioeconomic, biosocial, and evolutionary determinants of behavior, health, and longevity. He is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University, where he directs the Human Nature Lab. He is also the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science.

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Joe Rogan

  host

• Nicholas Christakis

  guest

• Jamie Vernon

  host

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Nicholas Christakis, Joe Rogan Experience #1274 - Nicholas Christakis explores Nicholas Christakis on Free Speech, Human Goodness, and Our Future Joe Rogan and physician-sociologist Nicholas Christakis use the Yale Halloween controversy as a springboard to discuss free speech, campus culture, and why deplatforming backfires. Christakis argues that liberal principles—open expression, reasoned debate, and granting good intent—are essential to social progress and to exposing bad ideas rather than driving them underground.

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