Jan 22
Ask A Genius 1607: Charlatan Complex, Perfect Spheres, and Pornfluencers
How do misinformation ecosystems, material limits, and cultural taboos intersect? Scott Douglas Jacobsen opens by asking where to begin; Rick Rosner argues that gullibility clusters, using anti-vaccine grifts as a gateway to wider conspiracism. They pivot to physics: how close can a manufactured sphere approach an ideal one, and what do ball-bearing tolerances imply about cost and limits. Rosner…