Matt Ridley | From Science Journalism to Politics, and the Origin of COVID-19
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ค. 2024
- The Origins Podcast will appear every other Thursday. Matt Ridley is a veteran journalist and science writer, with a training in genetics. He is also a Conservative member of the House of Lords in the UK. Matt and Lawrence were able to discuss his training, and his move from scientist to journalist, as well as the spectrum of his experiences in his various roles. We then moved on to the centerpiece of our dialogue: His newest book, Viral, written with geneticist Alina Chan. Together they produced what Lawrence Krauss views to be a masterpiece of science writing and detective work, exploring the origins of Covid-19. Our discussion, like the book, allowed us to illustrate a lot of the science related to the virus, and the current pandemic.
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"...the first time in four billion years that a creature is gonna read it's own recipe" --Matt Ridley
Brilliant!
I know right! I was listening at work and it hella made me smile. Clever fellow!
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If I keep catching my crush (Lawrence Krauss)-and his esteemed guests-live; I’m going to become utterly spoiled. Lol. ♥️
Lol creepy
Oh amazing! Matt Ridley is my favorite anthropology writer. He introduced me to evolution and help to answer many of my questions. Thanks yo that I departed from my creationist upbringing around year 2005.
Big thanks!
I had the same feeling of wonder when I read The Selfish Gene, will never forget the feeling. I had the same feeling years later when reading The Red Queen! Two books that shaped the way I see the world.
"Viral" a must read book...open eyes.
Damn this podcast just keeps on delivering 🤝🏽 Another engaging conversation!
What I don't get about the libertarian argument, that philanthropists would jump in and do all the funding, is, that they could already do that. And I do not want a society where the future depends on the generosity of a super rich elite.
We had that system in the middle ages.
Yup. We can see the craziness of this as Exxon spends millions of dollars fuding ACC disinformation. Exxon scientists knewe that CO2 was causing global warming in 1977 (as did many scientists) and were even preparing for it, while publically denying it. Rich corporations do not care and they manipulate the uneducated with their propaganda. While people die in heat events, low-lying countries are drowning, monsoon seasons are disrupted, and wildfires are more common.
Rest In Peace, Mrs. Krauss, with absolute respect.
Lawrence, this was a great podcast thank you very much Matt for sharing your work. Lawrence, please fix the lighting issue, it's distracting, apparently if you light from the back it will eliminate the shadowing affect. That was a suggestion during the chat, once again thank you for making this available for all the world.
Lawrence should come to Italy. We would love to listen to him here. He is a mind f**k. ;)
Great podcast.. Great teachers..Thank you guys very much..
Great interview. Best of the year.
I’m so happy I’ve discovered the origin podcasts - another excellent way-too-short interview!
Just recently discovered Ridley's books. Very profound and vital work
Brilliant. Thank you.
1:45:56 Start book discussion
1:30:45 Covid in China - early government policies with regard to research and publications
38:00 sure. it goes both ways. but no one is saying ban private donation. but funding of education & especially non commercial blue sky and fundamental res is no purview of business. nor are places like health appropriate for thousands of millions of dollar industries. -JC
Quality discussion!
thanks for a wonderfully interesting interview. i really enjoy the conversational tone
Classical mechanics was so dull in presentation and assignment oriented in our Physics course that I never got that spark and inspiration in physics while I was I school. It was all block on inclined planes and pulleys.
that soft voice in the intro gets me every time. Krauss has changed a lot over the years
The problem with learning about black holes and intriguing stuff first and getting through inclined planes is that one gets a sense of knowing without understanding. It might be better to make learning inclined plane physics more fun. I know I was seduced by the glamour of physics and didn't unfortunately put in the real work required.
I teach biology to first year universities and know what you mean, I think. It was only in my 40's, through reading histories of science, that I came to undrstand how marvelous it was that we learned that reality had predictable patterns that conform to arithmetic and geomtry and algebra. It is amazing. The ancient Greeks were the furst to understand this. It was so boring rolling balls down inclined planes in first yr university. I ddnt realize we were learning about empirical reality.
"Isolation and purification are jargon words in virology...they mean different
things to different people...they’re not very precise."
Robin Weiss, Professor of Viral Oncology at University College London
"Well you isolate a virus by........eh...eh..... you isolate it...eh"
David Baltimore, 1975 Nobel laureate Medicine
Did SARS COV2 better replicate at very low tissue temperature?
At TWiV 659 at min29 virologist Christian Drosten indicate that.
*this is a boon for citizen science, citizen journalism & has exposed the willingness to censor information & ""for-your-own-goodism" in a way that i dont think any of us quite knew already infected the academy.* even those of us who had already seen quite a bit of concerning biz.gr8 interview. i was in the mood for ...shermer or krause (thats a mood): i watched matt ridley interview on each! never heard of him before today. very credible and concise. -JC
Why would DARPA be involved? What would be possible benefits of the results of that kind of research in a military setting?
When was this recorded?
about a month ago.
Lawrence, please set your camera with a dark background behind you....you're going into silhouette too often for it not to become a real distraction
Did we know at what tissue temperature did SARS COV2 better replicate ?
Why ?
Because at TWiV 659 at min29 virologist Christian Drosten suggest that SARS COV2 better replicate at very low tissue temperature
Lawrence, you mentioned early on that you're colorblind. Have you tried enchroma glasses? There are many kinds, for various kinds of colorblindness, and apparently, they work great for many colorblind people. I am neither colorblind, nor associated with any glasses company, so this is only a personal comment.
Has Dr. Krauss tried glasses for colorblindness like EnChroma?
*34:00** maybe thr is a hybrid answer: if "private-public" wasnt just code for Private, preparing for theft later & thieving directly in contracts now.* private has so crept into the academy it is hard...idk. it is true, you do have to lie about how your project will both change the field, the world & launch a scalable product. & plus diversity certainly wouldnt hurt. -JC
Wow
Dear Lawrence.
Your dear mother is proud of you beyond life.
Do us all a favor and buy a microphone that works.
Cern is a good example of government innovation funding over time
Photons are bastards, eh? I'm pretty sure it's a sensor on your camera reading the strong light from the window behind you when you move your head that is momentarily plunging the image into darkness, because it has happened in every TOP I've watched so far. Probably pretty easy to fix. Otherwise the content is fantastic.
Let’s see them try and yank this one down.
how many more months til that new satellite sends us pics of aliens
Sounds like Stephen Fry
Yes he has… they say u don’t learn who u r until 60
About 12 mins in before Krauss makes a smirk against religion. So sad he can't drop the dogma.
The clickbait episode title for us science geeks should be, 'COVID-19 Origin Could Be One (or More) of SEVERAL Possibilities!!!
How many cities in China with ive live animal markets? How many cities in China doing gain of function research on the corona virus? Coincidence?
See the light, no, yes, no, yes, no.....Larry is flickering.
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Prepare to be cancelled by youtube. LOL
Still up
Maybe nothing created the virus, just like the universe lol
A Brexist, insulated by privilege from the economic consequences. I'm struggling to take him seriously and the podcast is mutilated by ad breaks. Concise enough?
Funny word salad. Intending to make a bug more lethal or. Transmitable in humans is BIOWEAPONS RESEARCH.
There is criminal intent written all over his book
Thanks Prof. Krauss! "It's called the Wuhan *Coronavirus* Laboratory... That's the *name of the lab* in Wuhan." - Jon Stewart 😂🤣😅
Wow I really appreciate this candid discussion of gain-of-function and Wuhan. There's so much misinfo and spin out there that it's hard to digest anything. I know Lawrence Krauss will deliver straight dope.
Ridley: “For us, as amateur detectives…”
Exactly, Chan and Ridley are not virologists and know nothing about viruses. Yet, they wrote a book about the origin of SARS-CoV-2 during a pandemic. Grifters.
Please have an actual virologist on next time. You need to correct this mistake.
Sorry, but we do know the origin. It’s completely unscientific and against all evidence to speculate on anything but a zoonotic origin.
You should know better.
best you describe the evidence for a zoonotic origin in Wuhan.. No animals with covid virus removed from Wuhan seafood market.
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You call yourself a scientist, why not apply your skills here even if you are out of your lane.
You are aware your question is the same as religious people ask of your Big Bang theory or the theory of evolution?
It took a long time to even realize there was a new virus spreading and you expect to find the actual animal the spillover happened from.
You reject every scientific study pointing at a spillover. Yet you accept the most outrageous speculations on a lab leak. You sound religious.
Zoonotic spillovers happen all the time. It happened in wet markets before. Guano diggers getting sick from unknown viruses happens regularly.
The burden of proving otherwise is on you.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology studies coronaviruses. That's what it does...
@@TheOriginsPodcast It seems that Elaniago is a Chinese troll. Being a former virologist myself (with a diploma in virology in zoonotic Hantaviruses and and a postdoc in mouse neuroviruses at highly renowned institutions as well as a PhD in immunology), please believe me, it is not too difficult to understand what had been discussed between two scientists who are not virologists (applicable also to equally bright non-scientists, for that matter). Not only virologists are capable of understanding the furin cleavage site issue, to give only one example albeit an important one, if explained properly, as was the case in the podcast conversation and probably also in the book (still need to read it - I am ordering it now). This conversation was extremely interesting! Thank you very much for making it available!
_When you like your own comment, is that proof that you were created in a lab?_ 🧬 - j q t -
Completely ignorant nonsense
"Viral" a must read book...open eyes.