Good evening everyone, thank you for coming out here tonight. My name is rachel miro, i had to make sure by looking at the sheet of paper. I am the Senior Editor of our silicone valley desk here in san jose. I say here in san jose, but here in Silicon Valley because we are in mountain view. Joining me on the stage is the director of internet ethics, alex stall moos, former chief security officer, and the director of the stanford internet observatory. Director of journalism and media ethics at Markkula Center. This evening is copresented with the Markkula Center for applied ethics. This is part of this series on common ground. It is an initiative bringing people together for civil discourse featuring journalist hosting provocative conversations about politics, policy, arts and culture, science and technology. Reckoning with the force of disagreement among us about how to face the future of economic, culture and environmental uncertainty. This serious asks what are our shared responsibil
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A steady diet of healthy skepticism as well as paranoid delusion from legitimate questions regarding the violations of privacy that could arise from the mass implementation of Contact Tracing to the lunacy of questioning whether the virus is actually real and while many of these skepticism are a healthy response to potentially dangerous need jerk reactions by Public Officials or corporate stooges looking to make a buck there disaster capitalism others tragically are not instead they would fall into the world of Snake Oil Salesmen looking to squeeze some fame and profit off the paranoia and fear a crisis can bring and its out of those crossroads where controversy is born and today nothing appears to be more controversial than the words and work of dr judy mccovey its and can have been lively whose new book plague of corruption restoring faith in the promise of science has shot up the bestseller lists of the New York Times and amazon while at the same time inspiring the flames. Skepticis
A well earned skepticism so that leaves us with a very important question when does healthy skepticism turn into paranoid delusion and who ultimately gets to decide what is the important difference between the 2. Since the onset of the covert 19 pandemic there has been a steady diet of healthy skepticism as well as paranoid delusion from legitimate questions regarding the violations of privacy that could arise from the mass implementation of Contact Tracing to the lunacy of questioning whether the virus is actually real and while many of these skepticism are a healthy response to potentially dangerous need jerk reactions by Public Officials or corporate stooges looking to make a buck there disaster capitalism others tragically are not instead they would fall into the world of Snake Oil Salesmen looking to squeeze some fame and profit off the paranoia and fear a crisis can bring and its out of those crossroads where controversy is born and today nothing appears to be more controversial
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