Online: If Ignorance is Bliss, We Should All be Ecstatic

Author Fred Leavitt will discuss his book, If Ignorance is Bliss, We Should All be Ecstatic

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>> I was trained as a scientist, received a doctorate in psychopharmacology, and became convinced that drugs would soon be developed that would prevent or cure all known diseases. But as I continued learning and teaching university classes, I became aware that the drug field was riddled with poorly designed studies and outright fraud. One eminent scientist said that well over half the articles published in the best medical journals draw incorrect conclusions. I wrote a book about it— The REAL Drug Abusers— that one reviewer called one of the most important drug books of the decade. I started looking at other fields and concluded that they are no better. In fact, the more I looked the more distrustful I became. I evolved into a radical skeptic and wrote a book explaining my reasoning. My approach is different from that in philosophy texts, but it provides a good introduction to radical skepticism and a challenge to anyone interested in what we can really know.