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Every high-stakes domain has a version of institutionalized dissent. Military intelligence formalized it after the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Aviation built it into accident investigation after Challenger. Medicine invented controlled trials to distrust the doctor's own judgment. Finance rewards the contrarian fund manager who is structurally required to find reasons not to invest.
This show documents that pattern and tells a human story about what happens when everyone agrees and what that can cost.
Each episode takes one domain and one moment where consensus failed catastrophically, then traces how that domain responded by building opposition into its structure.