Alan Levinovitz
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I forget.
But basically, he's like, hey, look, man, scientists are real people.
So.
Imagine again, it's the long COVID world.
You have an extremely loud, really traumatized, severely ill population looking for scientists who are going to be their saviors.
You put out your study on immunology.
It's very preliminary.
They're like, oh my God, this is finally it.
This is the key.
You feel really good about yourself.
There are financial incentives.
I mean, people talk about like financial incentives built into the mind-body alternative guru stuff.
But of course, there's financial incentives built into science.
These people are getting giant multi-million dollar grants to study things.
They are getting contracts with companies to produce potentially tests for long COVID.
So they too are incentivized to believe that their science proves more than it does and is more promising than it is.
We know that.
These are just normal science.
They're regular human beings like anyone else.
And so...