Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & China
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Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & China

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 24, 202655 min

(0:00) Michael Kratsios joins the show! (01:56) Is this administration anti-science? The Nature poll, DEI grants, and $8B down the drain (8:16) Climate science cuts: RCP 8.5 gets pulled and the "climate emergency" narrative collapses (13:45) $47B at NIH, Eroom's Law, and golden tickets: has American science stagnated? (22:24) Big bold bets: Genesis Mission, quantum by 2028, fusion by 2035, boots on the moon in '28 (34:04) The great race with China: $33B to $670B, and 7 out of 10 STEM PhDs aren't American (44:09) Fauci did more damage to science than anyone in modern history, and NIH's median rese...

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Is this administration anti-science? We want to essentially double the scientific output of the United States. Did we lose it? Or did it lead to moments where you have like Fauci?

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That's a great question. Are we in this moment, this populist moment right now in the West where science and technology is viewed as a tool of the elite and therefore it must be broken and destroyed?

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That's what's most tragic. That is a crazy, crazy fact. Has science stagnated in America? And what the heck is going on?

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