Steven Novella

right?

So the next time all those same red flags are there, there's a good chance that that's fraudulent too.

That's the lesson people need to learn.

Like we actually are, there's a closed feedback loop, right?

If we were wrong about this, they go, maybe we need to modify our, the way we evaluate new technology.

But when we are right over and over and over again, that kind of reinforces the skeptical approach that you're taking.

And we pretty much hit this one on the head, you know?

All right, Jay, tell us about the fungal superhighway.com.

Arbuscular mycorrhizal.

So Jay, I was really interested in the function of these fungal networks as a carbon sink, because all the articles about it were very unsatisfying in how they explain it.

Saying that it absorbs like, you know, 3 billion tons of carbon a year doesn't tell us really much because you need to know how much it's excreting too, right?

This is, I'm sure it's in a steady state.

So I don't know if you did, if you did a deep dive on that.

Yeah.

It took me a while, but I found out how much.

The estimate is 300 billion metric tons.

Yeah, gigatons, megatons.

300 gigatons.

Yeah, which is an incredible amount.

With about three gigatons or three billion tons coming and going every year.