Alex Smith
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32,670 appearances
416 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2016
last heard 4d ago
Alex Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And because time was pressing, I chose the one that seemed like most obvious and easiest to play that we hadn't done before.
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Thank you, Stacey.
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Yeah, to quote Bob Dylan as the present now will later be past.
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Right.
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about this that's persuasive uh to you in terms of the NIH's claims or the underlying values that might have prompted this rule change, or nothing here.
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And I I appreciate also that there is a to be sure here.
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And I appreciate that Ken went there a little bit.
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There are issues with NIH.
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I don't know.
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Have you any of you read the book Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson?
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And they have a couple chapters that sort of address science and NIH.
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And they talk about how it used to be that some higher proportion of investigators were funded before age 35, and now it's like 2%.
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It's like really low, right?
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And that, you know, the technology behind the mRNA vaccine just kept
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Getting denied at NIH because it wasn't enough like data.
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It was too like out there and avant-garde.
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And we're not supporting research that like pushes on innovation.
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They also tell this great story of like, if somebody had said to like somebody wrote this up as from an article, but like somebody had said, like the king of Spain had said to Columbus, like, you don't have any preliminary data supporting that you'll like be able to make it to the
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Americas, why don't you just, you know, sail from Spain to Portugal?
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Like the study section thinks that's highly likely to succeed because we have great preliminary data about it, you know?
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