Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

Going Viral with Carl Bergstrom

There are still more questions than answers about COVID-19. While the impacts of the virus are felt in every corner of human life, there’s a desire to find a neat and clean explanation for how things got to this point. This search for causality creates an environment ripe for the spread of misinformation – conspiracy theories, premature conclusions, incomplete data- and it’s crucial to learn how to think critically about the stories being told. We invited biology professor Carl Bergstrom, author of the forthcoming book “Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World”, to talk about what we do and don’t know, what the experts are debating over, and what it means to have the first ever quarantine in the age of the internet. Come for the lesson on thinking critically about data, stay to hear about the shrimp who love to punch.RELATED:<a href="https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/calling-bullshit-the-art-of/9780525509189-item.html?ref=isbn-search" target="_blank">Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World by Carl Bergstrom</a> (available for pre-order)<a href="https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom" target="_blank">Follow Carl Bergstrom on Twitter</a>Go to <a href="https://callingbullshit.org/" target="_blank">CallingBullshit.org</a>

Every week Chris Hayes asks the big questions that keep him up at night. How do we make sense of this unprecedented moment in world history? Why is this (all) happening?

This podcast starts to answer these questions. Writers, experts, and thinkers who are also trying to get to the bottom of them join Chris to break it all down and help him get a better night’s rest. “Why is this Happening?” is presented by MSNBC and NBCNews Think.