Michael Kratsios

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623 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2025 last heard 24 Aug

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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & China · 24 Aug 2026 podcast

And I think that's one example.

I think the one that um a lot of Americans see and feel and notice quite obviously that I always like to talk about is uh the speed of flight.

You know, uh in the nineteen nineties you could you could fly on a Concord and and now you can't.

We're flying slower than we were before, you know, 10, 20 years ago.

Um and and I think

And I think we can do much better.

And I think the question we always ask is like, why?

Why is this, why is this happening?

And the context of government funding, I think, you know, you could say one thing, well, look, okay, all the all the easy problems have already kind of been solved, sort of low-hanging fruit has been picked, so it's it's harder to solve the next thing, sure.

But I think, but I think broadly the issue is we have not been innovative in any way on the way that we actually conduct.

The science.

The, you know, whether it's at NIH or at NSF or at any of their other science agencies, the answer has always been: let's just keep doing the same thing, but add more money and hope that we get more outcomes proportionally.

Rather than asking the harder questions about are there other ways that we could be conducting the science?

Are there other types of scientists that could be getting the funding?

Could be getting the money.

Are there other institutions that could be getting the funding?

And I think those are some of the questions that we start to bring up in in New Golden Age about how we should really be looking in the mirror and asking ourselves, are we spending money in the smartest and best ways?

Realize there's no incentive to do that.

I think the incentive on the hill, oftentimes, is to just keep increasing budgets that ultimately flow down to particular districts or particular states.

On the government side, there's no incentive to sort of check your homework and reveal that what you're doing is not actually working very well.

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