Do Experts need Crystal Balls?

A quickly passing 30 minute examination of experts and their predictions over the last 2,500 years, inspired by the weird and wonderful predictions about coronavirus. This podcast mischievously challenges any notion that experts are any better at forecasting the future than the ancient seers with their crystal balls.

This episode reviews the facts and the hype of coronavirus and considers whether the media are drumming up a hysteria more terrible than the disease itself. This episode also considers whether we are getting closer to a great apocalypse and whether panic and scaremongering are replacing religion as they permeate our souls, giving a dystopian meaning to our lives.

This episode examines some of the incongruity of climate change dogma and activism, and asks whether expressing a grievance has become a substitute for accepting resposibility.