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Leighton Smith Podcast: Statistician and author Guy Hatchard discusses the distortion of public information, and the age of social engineering

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Wed, 12 Oct 2022, 1:25PM

Leighton Smith Podcast: Statistician and author Guy Hatchard discusses the distortion of public information, and the age of social engineering

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 12 Oct 2022, 1:25PM

On this week's podcast:

The Social Compact is an implicit understanding between the government and the people.Statistician and author Guy Hatchard suggests that the Social Compact has been broken. We discuss the distortion of public information, increasing control or influence over the media, the age of social engineering, and the lessons to be absorbed from poorly-scienced public health ideas.And is the next pandemic “Anxiety over Life Itself?”We comment on the Government versus farmers and farming in NZ, and we visit The Mailroom with Mrs Producer.

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