Sidney Brenner
person
4 mentions
3 recordings
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 7 Dec
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Nobel‑winning biologist who accepted tobacco industry funding
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Peak in the week of 3 Dec — 2 mentions across 1 series.
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentMatthew CobbGround Truths · The Story of Francis Crick, a new masterpiece biography by M... · 24:27 · 7 Dec
…But it's Crick and Brenner, his friend Sidney Brenner, who actually have this idea.…
Matthew CobbGround Truths · The Story of Francis Crick, a new masterpiece biography by M... · 23:30 · 7 Dec
…He and Sidney Brenner have this public or semi-public, there's about 10 people in the room, and they start jabbering about all the various results that people have been working on and nobody could fit them together.…
UnknownBehind the Bastards · Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction... · 1:13:22 · Jun 2025
…I do think that's a thing that a lot of scientists working in important fields feel, which is that like, well, if I have to do something a little fucked up to further this research with incredibly important like implications, it's worth it. And he cited the case of a Nobel laureate, a biologist named Sidney Brenner, who took $15 million from Philip Morris t…
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