Cara Santa Maria

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5,033 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 5d ago

Cara Santa Maria’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #827 - May 15 2021 podcast

Is this a huge improvement, though, Steve, over the studies that we've seen? voice-verified

I mean, I remember 10 years ago reporting on studies with direct brain electrodes with, you know, primates who are playing video games. voice-verified

Right.

Right. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

So there's a new study that was just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences, a.k.a. voice-verified

PNAS. voice-verified

And the reason that it is gaining a little bit more attention now is because it was previously, I think, published. voice-verified

It was either in PLOS One or it was some open access journal. voice-verified

where it hadn't yet been peer reviewed. voice-verified

So we did overcome that barrier, at least. voice-verified

It was like in a preprint archive, I guess. voice-verified

And so now this study has been peer reviewed. voice-verified

It's been published in PNAS. voice-verified

But at the same time, there's a lot of skepticism around this study. voice-verified

So we're going to need to see if other labs can find similar evidence and if we can find other lines of evidence to support the claim. voice-verified

So the claim here, voice-verified

is that SARS-CoV-2 might actually be able to insert itself into the human genome, just like Steve said. voice-verified

And let's kind of break this down a little bit. voice-verified

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