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Brian Barrett

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848 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Trump’s Tech Posse in China; Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman?; Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories

You're doing amazing.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Trump’s Tech Posse in China; Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman?; Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories

Yeah, you mentioned the playbook that they ran out, which I think is absolutely the right way to describe it.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Trump’s Tech Posse in China; Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman?; Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories

I also think of it as almost refrigerator magnet.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Trump’s Tech Posse in China; Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman?; Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories

It's like anytime something like this happens, it's just like, well, we'll grab ivermectin and COVID and vaccine and we'll just jumble it up in some combination that sounds scary and bad.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Trump’s Tech Posse in China; Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman?; Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories

And then we'll sell people pills to make sure that they are fortified against whatever the thing is that's also a fake thing.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Trump’s Tech Posse in China; Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman?; Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories

But you still need to buy this thing to protect yourself.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Trump’s Tech Posse in China; Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman?; Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories

I don't understand how people can sort of

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Trump’s Tech Posse in China; Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman?; Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories

live that way on the... Like, people who are clearly huckstering this, right?

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Trump’s Tech Posse in China; Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman?; Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories

I think there's, like, a class of people who are opportunists who, you know, foment this in order to sell supplements.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Trump’s Tech Posse in China; Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman?; Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories

I believe it's the rate of transmission related to that.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Trump’s Tech Posse in China; Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman?; Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories

I do think people should read this story because the details are fascinating too.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Trump’s Tech Posse in China; Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman?; Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories

It was a real team effort.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Trump’s Tech Posse in China; Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman?; Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories

They didn't just do it in a vacuum.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Trump’s Tech Posse in China; Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman?; Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories

They reached out to someone at this lab who they knew had the right kind of whatever.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Trump’s Tech Posse in China; Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman?; Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories

I'm not a scientist, but it was a coordination among three or four different labs that each of which had an element that would be able to contribute to making this test happen.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Trump’s Tech Posse in China; Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman?; Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories

Really incredible.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Trump’s Tech Posse in China; Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman?; Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories

And then at the same time,

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Trump’s Tech Posse in China; Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman?; Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories

Moderna, we all remember Moderna, they're already at work too on an mRNA vaccine if we get to that point where we feel like we need to have vaccines, assuming that RFK Jr.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Trump’s Tech Posse in China; Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman?; Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories

does not put a stop to it because he thinks vaccines and mRNA vaccines specifically are bad.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Trump’s Tech Posse in China; Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman?; Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories

So, you know, there's...