Evan Bernstein
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Yeah.
Nope.
You do remember it, Steve.
Whoa.
And would you agree that this is highly contested, debated?
That's right.
And I'm glad you brought up the chicken in this because the other scientists have touched on that as well.
Post-doctoral researcher and fossilized protein experts at the University of Turin.
Name is, oh gosh, I only have the last name, Decker.
My apologies for not having your first name, but Professor Decker and their team quoted, "...what they have done is create synthetic collagen using an AI model trained on a variety of different species, mainly chickens."
It's a very interesting development in itself, but it's not a dinosaur.
In fact, it's more chicken than anything else.
So that is what we're dealing with here.
So pretty much right off the bat, this thing is not what it's cracked up to be.
Look, I get what they're trying.
In a sense, I kind of get what they're trying to do.
They're coming up with an alternative, right?
Lab-grown leather toy.
So you're not harming animals or anything else, right?
Yeah, that's different.