[itronitron]

I used to occasionally watch JRE and at the time found some of the episodes to be interesting thought experiments. But then I watched one episode where the guest expert was talking about a topic in which I had enough familiarity to recognize that they were completely bullshitting their way through the interview and attempting to sound mysterious in order to avoid providing any factual information. Recalling the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect [0], I concluded that every previous episode I had watched was equivalent BS and I haven't watched another one since.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...

[autoexec]

That doesn't seem to make much sense. Even if one guest is 100% bullshitting, why would that mean the next guest is too? I mean, it'd be fair to conclude that Joe is full of shit since he's always there, but with all of the people who have been on the podcast I can't imagine all of them are frauds who have no idea what they're talking about.

Stay skeptical, by all means, and don't count on the show to fact check everything for you, but why automatically dismiss them all as BS without evidence and without even hearing them out? If you found the show interesting before, you're probably missing out.

[throwaway4aday]

A good reason to not read the papers either.