With 12 million viewers, Mazin's 'Chernobyl' ranks as HBO's most-watched miniseries since 2001 The writer-producer behind the Emmy juggernaut explores the pressures to do the real-life 1986 tragedy
With 12 million viewers, Mazin's 'Chernobyl' ranks as HBO's most-watched miniseries since 2001
Except it isn't. The narrative is still narrative, and the fact is still fact. We decide that 99 percent of scientists are mistaken, that they've placed their heat sensors too close to parking lots … and ice caps continue to melt. We concoct nonsense about vaccines and autism … and babies continue to get measles.
. Our brains narrativize information so quickly, we usually don't realize it's happened. A collection of facts hits our frontal lobe like shards of broken glass, and our minds go about the happy business of gluing them back together as if they were always meant to be that way. But just because we do it, is it right?
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