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Sacks support ×1 ▼ on 🏛️ Federal research funding retreats from universities E224 · 2025-04-19 ▶ 40:14

No one is saying that they have to get rid of DEI. They just have to give up their federal funding the way that Bob Jones University did.

Friedberg support ×2 ▼ on 🏛️ Federal research funding retreats from universities E224 · 2025-04-19 ▶ 48:38

So the question today that's being asked is, should we be doing fundamental scientific research at universities given that over time the administrative overhead has grown and they're basically creating administrative workloads and employing people without necessarily having a market incentive?

Friedberg support ×2 ▲ on 🤖 The gut microbiome becomes a real therapeutic platform E102 · 2022-10-29 ▶ 1:30:21

And so now we can be very targeted potentially about eradicating that bacteria from the gut or kind of changing our gut biome in a way that ultimately resolves to eliminating that disease risk.

Friedberg support ×2 ▲ on 📈 Life sciences stays funded through the bust - own the tools companies E98 · 2022-10-01 ▶ 18:49

And by the way, there's a lot of public companies to invest in, not on the primary basis, but that are tools companies that are benefiting greatly from the continued demand and growth in spending in that category.

Chamath support ×2 ▲ on 🤖 The gut microbiome becomes a real therapeutic platform E93 · 2022-08-26 ▶ 1:14:38

But we are finding now that you can take feces from healthy individuals that have good gut biome and good bacterial counts, and if you put it, inject it into people that are suffering from a bunch of different diseases, it actually is looking like it's curative. So Parkinson's, MS, IBS, colitis.

Friedberg support ×3 ▲ on 🤖 The gut microbiome becomes a real therapeutic platform E93 · 2022-08-26 ▶ 1:09:49

So guys, there's a known principle that's really deeply studied now in neurology, in neuroscience, called the gut-brain axis, that you can actually profoundly affect disease and the condition of the brain and neuro conditions by changing the gut biome.

Chamath support ×2 ▲ on 📈 Liquid biopsy is the one blood-diagnostic thesis that actually works E47 · 2021-09-18 ▶ 1:13:15

The only version of this problem that has been solved well is the ability to detect cell-free cancer DNA in blood, using a very small quantum of blood. Companies like Garden and Grail have actually done and built a great business out of it. But it requires extremely sophisticated machinery sold to them by Illumina and others.

Friedberg support ×2 ▲ on 🏛️ Regulatory and IP capture keeps US healthcare incumbents' rents intact E46 · 2021-09-14 ▶ 21:58

they invite Abbott and they invite the guys in and they're like, you know, the White House, they have a consortium meeting, and everyone's kind of a little bit chuckling about this, like, oh, this is awesome. It's another $2 billion payday, which is what they just got. ... you end up with a $30 test when in Germany, you can go buy a 50 cent test at any liquor store

Chamath support ×2 ▲ on 🏛️ Regulatory and IP capture keeps US healthcare incumbents' rents intact E46 · 2021-09-14 ▶ 26:15

it completely burned the incentives for any health care company in the United States to do anything other than just basically walk prices up ... you would have made more money being along UnitedHealthcare than you would have been owning Facebook, Google, any of these other tech companies in the last decade