Episode · The Megyn Kelly Show · 2024-09-06
Books mentioned on How Medical Establishment Keeps Americans Sick, and Evils of Censorship, with Dr. Marty Makary and Naval Ravikant | Ep. 881
Megyn Kelly is joined by Dr.
Dr. Marty Makary discussed Jaws by Peter Benchley. Megyn Kelly recommended Blind Spots by Marty Makary. Naval Ravikant recommended The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Jaws
Jaws by Peter Benchley is a suspenseful thriller novel that follows a coastal community terrorized by a giant great white shark and the subsequent hunt to destroy it.
Discussed“Just like when Peter Benchley wrote Jaws. Did not mean to turn us all off from sharks forevermore. The unintended consequences. of sharks.”
Where to get it
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Blind Spots
Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong and What It Means for Our Health by Marty Makary is a critical examination of medical dogma and systemic errors within the healthcare establishment.
Recommended“By the way, the book is called Blind Spots by Marty Makary, m a k a r y.”
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The Fabric of Reality
The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch is a seminal work of popular science and philosophy that explores four foundational strands of thought: quantum physics, epistemology, computation, and evolution.
Recommended“David Deutsch, who's my current favorite uh scientific author, um he talks about this in the fabric of reality that there's basically four great explanations that can be used to explain at a high level almost everything going on in the world.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“It is called Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong and What It Means for Our Health. It's out September 17th.”
“From the same team that brought you What Is a Woman? this film proves that the only way to take DEI seriously is to laugh it into oblivion.”