We favor the sensational and the extremely visible. This affects the way we judge heroes. There is little room in our consciousness for heroes who do… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Science had shifted, thanks to Bacon, into an emphasis on empirical observation. The problem is that, without a proper method, empirical observations can lead you astray. Hume came to... stress the need for some rigor in the gathering and interpretation of knowledge... epistemology... Hume is the first modern epistemologist... he was an obsessive skeptic and never believed... that a link between two items could be established as being causal.

This idea that in order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than the probability (which you can’t know) is the central idea of uncertainty. Much

Newspapers used to be written by journalists; they are now written for journalists.