James Tour
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 15 Dec
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Do you understand how these things came about?
I've never had a scientist say to me, oh yeah, no problem, I understand this.
We have a pretty good grasp on this thing.
Never, never in private.
Never in private.
They'll never say that.
I've had people say, Jim, look, I hear you.
Don't quote me, but I'm with you on this thing.
And so I think the vast majority of them agree with me, but they don't say it.
Sometimes the community is not very warm when you admit that sort of thing.
You get excluded from certain societies, from certain academies, when you start speaking like that, when you don't toe the party line.
Scientists are just like everybody else.
We want to allay our fears and be part of the crowd and be part of the group.
And so we say things.
Yeah, yeah.
Many people learned during COVID that wasn't true.
And scientists have lost a lot of credibility, and rightly so.
It needed to be lost because we're not very honest about many things.
A lot of times we'll see things, and I think that we will keep preaching the same thing and underscoring it.
And you have this ancestral sort of relationship in the sense of it's peer review.
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