I’m in the middle of listening to it and have a somewhat similar feeling. I don’t like the trick of bringing up a paper about Covid-19 when it looks like there’s about 4.4 million scholarly articles, and would then assume another order of magnitude more broadly in “the news.” Sure, some are more important than others, but “hey there’s this one study you didn’t see and I’m going to ask you to evaluate it in real time” is a jerkass move under the circumstances. If there’s something you want to bring up, should give people a week or more to get familiar with the content.
I’m in the middle of listening to it and have a somewhat similar feeling. I don’t like the trick of bringing up a paper about Covid-19 when it looks like there’s about 4.4 million scholarly articles, and would then assume another order of magnitude more broadly in “the news.” Sure, some are more important than others, but “hey there’s this one study you didn’t see and I’m going to ask you to evaluate it in real time” is a jerkass move under the circumstances. If there’s something you want to bring up, should give people a week or more to get familiar with the content.