Doctor Mike

The truth is unknowable in this moment, but somebody should be responding and telling them that the truth is unknowable in this moment.

And at least giving them something where they're like, look, we actually can't know, right?

We can't, but,

here's our best understanding based on the information available to us, whether that's based on some past disease, some understanding of other symptoms, whatever it is that you guys have available to you.

But for the love of God, like be in the conversation.

And that was really the, that was the kind of main takeaway from the project as we wrote it up was just, we need to close that time gap.

You gotta be there.

Yeah.

Yeah, I did it in 2019.

So I went on Joe's podcast.

Through Sam Harris.

I think he heard me on Sam.

So when I did the Senate Russia work, so I was asked to do that work as an outside researcher.

And I was asked by both Senator Warner and Senator Burr.

This is important because in right-wing media, they wrote that I was like some Democrat, Clintonite appointee tapped by the Dems to do this.

No.

Right.

I had a bipartisan appointee role there.

It was not partisan work at all, actually.

I was asked to field a bunch of outsiders to outside academics to look at this data set.