Thomas Lu
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28 appearances
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1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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So Derek, if this stuff doesn't get walked back, what do you think the future of scientific research in America could look like?
I wonder if you can give me an example, maybe, just to drive this home for the audience, of something that came out of the NIH or the NSF in the last few years that maybe we wouldn't get if the agency was cut by a half or a quarter.
I don't know, our show talks a lot about unanswered scientific questions, you know, what we don't know. And I feel like a lot of questions might end up unanswered that didn't need to end up that way. And this might be a case where we don't know what kinds of things we're going to end up not knowing.
Yeah, Elon Musk is playing a big role here through his Doge cost-cutting mission. And I know he's criticized what he sees as the inefficiency of a lot of scientific research. Like, he had this quote where he said something like, most scientific papers are pretty useless. And I guess...
It seems to me like maybe he is misunderstanding how science works, that if you're going for efficiency, you may end up throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Yeah, I mean, GLP-1s like Ozempic, you know, they come from saliva we got from Gila monsters.
Yeah, we can't just do the studies that are gonna work.
I know we're right in the middle of all of this and, you know, it could change in two days. Yeah. What's your sense of alarm when it comes to this whole situation right now?
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