Eric Topol

The Age of the Infovore, that's right.

I mean, have people been using that term?

Because you are emblematic of it.

Yeah, well, if anybody was ingesting more information and being able to work with it, that's what I didn't realize about you, Tyler, is restaurants, basketball, and all these other fine arts, very impressive.

Now,

One of the topics I want to get into is, I guess, related to a topic you've written about a fair amount, which is the great stagnation.

And right now we're seeing issues like an attack on science.

And in the past, you've written about how you want to raise the social status of scientists.

So how do you see this current, I would even characterize as a frontal assault on science?

Yeah, I totally agree.

Rather than creative destruction, it's just destruction.

And it's unfortunate because it seems to be haphazard and reckless to me, at least.

We, of course, like so many institutions, rely on NIH funding for the work.

But I agree that reform is fine as long as it's done in a very thought-out, careful way so we can eke out the most productivity effort possible.

The best investment.

Now, along with that, you started Emergent Ventures, where you're funding young talent.

I couldn't agree with you more on that.

And I know some of the people that you funded, like Ann Wiley, who developed a saliva test for COVID out of Yale.

But as you say, there's so many great young and maybe not so young scientists working

all over Canada being one great reservoir.