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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:44) – Lab-leak theory
(10:51) – Gain-of-function research of viruses
(23:00) – Bioterrorism
(27:30) – Tony Fauci
(37:41) – COVID Vaccines
(43:46) – Joe Rogan
(50:49) – Variants
(55:31) – Rapid at home testing
(59:44) – Animal testing
(1:05:09) – Stepping down as director of the NIH
(1:09:03) – Barack Obama
(1:11:06) – Accelerating Medicines Partnership
(1:21:44) – Faith
(1:27:12) – Fear of death
(1:30:15) – Meaning of life
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#275 – Rick Rubin: Legendary Music Producer
#274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry
#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence
#272 – Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal
#271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures
#270 – David Wolpe: Judaism
#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness
#268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology
#267 – Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse
#266 – Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar
#265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling
#264 – Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity
#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma
#262 – Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens
#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind
#260 – Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher & Gordon Ryan: The Greatest of All Time
#259 – Thomas Tull: From Batman Dark Knight Trilogy to AI and the Rolling Stones
#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning
#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize
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