Sabine Hossenfelder is a Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, where she leads a group studying quantum gravity. She is a leading science communicator and has written for the New Scientist, the New York Times, Aeon, and others. Her YouTube channel, ‘Science Wit

The Attention Merchants

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THE ATTENTION MERCHANTS “Wu is much better than most, partly because he is a sceptic, but mainly because he has narrative flair and an eye for the most telling examples.”