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Poles Apart: How A Journalist Divided A City

2023/8/4
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Tim Harford: 本期节目讲述了弗雷德里克·库克声称最先到达北极点，而记者菲利普·吉布斯对此提出质疑的故事。这一事件引发了哥本哈根市民的严重分歧，体现了极化现象并非现代社会独有。吉布斯最初的怀疑基于直觉和对库克言行的观察，但他后来的报道逐渐偏离了客观事实，走向了对库克的公开指责。库克的支持者们则因为民族自豪感和对库克个人的信任而无条件地支持他，这反映了人们在面对复杂问题时，往往会选择更容易接受的答案。最终，库克未能提供充分的证据证明自己到达北极点，但也没有人能够证明他并未到达。 Philip Gibbs: 我对库克的怀疑始于他对证据的含糊其辞和一些细微的异常行为。我并没有直接指控库克造假，而是通过细节描写和含蓄的表达来表达我的怀疑。我意识到自己冒了很大的风险，但为了让我的报道脱颖而出，我必须有所不同。 Frederick Cook: 我到达了北极点，我拥有证据，但这些证据暂时保存在格陵兰岛。我会在适当的时候向科学界提交我的证据。 Roald Amundsen: 我相信库克到达了北极点，因为他是一个诚实的人，而且我们曾经一起经历过生死攸关的探险。 Knud Rasmussen: 我最初相信库克，但后来他提交的证据让我非常失望，我完全失去了对他的信任。 Norman Hansen: 吉布斯侮辱了库克的荣誉，我向他提出决斗。

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The episode begins with the arrival of explorer Frederick Cook, who claims to have reached the North Pole, and journalist Philip Gibbs, who is skeptical of Cook's claims.

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Heroic explorer Frederick Cook has just returned from the very roof of the world, the first man to reach the North Pole. Or so he says. Journalist Philip Gibbs has been watching him, and he’s convinced he’s lying.

When Gibbs publishes that belief, he stands alone. Cook has a gripping manner and an excellent reputation: his winning tale *must *be true. Diners boo Gibbs at a restaurant, newspapers publish sly-looking caricatures of him, and he even receives threats of violence.

But then, everything changes.

We often think of polarisation as a modern problem — but the story of Cook and Gibbs has much to teach us here.

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