The biographer of the world-famous tennis player, Novak Djokovic, gave (in the context of recent reports, indeed shocking) information: the athlete is going to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Was he convinced by medicine and scientific facts about immunization, or was he convinced by his sporting ambition and will to fight this year's Australian Open winner Rafael Nadal? Or maybe Djokovic had this change in approach written in the stars ...
With prof. Paweł Łuków from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw, we are talking about:
- medical myths, beliefs that serious diseases can be treated with herbs
- mechanisms of conspiracy theories of history
- what the philosopher believes is a crisis
- persuading the unconvinced (eg to vaccinate)
