The pandemic has stress tested all our institutions, especially those we have relied on for truth seeking and sensemaking.
It’s deepened the chasm between m
ainstream and alternative, consensus and contrarian.A couple of days ago the most popular alternative media personality in the world, Joe Rogan, hosted mainstream CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta for a three hour special on vaccines and the pandemic. A small number of the clips went viral, but the full episode was much more nuanced and interesting.
Zubin Damania is a naturally heterodox thinker and has become one of the breakout stars of the pandemic
. Rebel Wisdom’s David Fuller caught up with Zubin to chat through what happened and what to make of this rift between heterodox and mainstream.