Ed Yong

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Science Vs · How to Smell like a Dog, with Ed Yong · 25 Sep 2025 podcast

I don't think that's at all related to the kinds of events that are currently happening in this country.

I don't think that making that case is going to save the National Science Foundation or any of the other sources of funding that fuel the kind of research that I've talked about in this book.

um because it's not true that what is happening is happening because people don't have a sufficiently good understanding of the value of scientific research and you know it's also not true that if we just communicate to the value of that research better

whether it's economic or whatever, that we will save science in this country.

What is happening in this country is happening because science is bad for tyrants and always has been.

Like a populace that has a better understanding of the world around it is a populace that is much harder to rule by fear.

And that is why the scientific infrastructure of this country is currently being sledgehammered to death.

There's no amount of like making a better case that is going to revert that.

You've got to stop the tyranny, not try and make a better case for why science should exist.

I really don't.

I really, really don't.

I don't think it's going to make a blind jot of difference.

No.

You know, I think that's playing the wrong game.

I think that is misdiagnosing the threat and the solution.

Yeah, so it turns out, unfortunately, that plastics in the ocean are also a source of DMS, inconveniently, which might be one reason why albatrosses often end up ingesting large chunks of the stuff, right?

You know, many other sea animals are also drawn towards DMS like sea turtles.

So this might be, you know, one reason why plastic pollution is so harmful to other animals, aside from the fact that it's just everywhere.

Yeah.

This is one example about many, and you've touched on other senses too.

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