Michael was a Professor of Liberal Studies and Global Liberal Studies at NYU from 2008 to 2019. He also taught at Duke University, North Carolina Central University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Case Western Reserve University.

Luigi Warren invented the mRNA technology on which Moderna was founded.

If it weren’t for Luigi, then Moderna wouldn’t exist.

 

"Luigi Warren, Ph.D. is President & CEO of Cellular Reprogramming, a biotechnology company located in La Jolla, California. The company produces human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) for researchers in academia and pharma using mRNA reprogramming, a clinically-relevant alternative to viral reprogramming which Luigi pioneered during postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School."

 

I came across Luigi after Twitter’s “fact checkers” thought that they knew more than Luigi.

Nick Hudson, who was previously on my podcast, joined in for this conversation.

Jennifer Zeng, who now lives in the United States, worked for the Chinese Communist Party.

Her life changed when she embraced religion and was swept up in a government crackdown on Falun Gong, and thrown into labour camps (from which, unbelievably, organ harvesting is a multimillion-dollar industry).

Falun Gong is sort of Buddhism mixed with Taoism.

Jennifer refers to herself as a “China insider”.

She discussed the Chinese Communist Party as the real threat to the world (especially Africa); Marxism being rejected; westerners not knowing what actual oppression is; and the Chinese Communist Party infiltrating everything.

 

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Last year I read a really good book called Why Nations Fail, by Daron Acemoglu - a professor of economics at MIT - and co-authored by Harvard professor James Robinson. Watch the video

Peter Boghossian is an American philosopher. He is an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University. Boghossian's areas of academic focus include atheism, critical thinking, pedagogy, scientific skepticism, and the Socratic method. Watch the video

Reiner Fuellmich is one of Germany's most powerful lawyers, and is building a string of class action lawsuits globally, for "crimes against humanity".

Brian Gerrish is founder and editor of UK Column.

Stephanie Seneff is a senior research scientist at MIT, which is MIT’s highest research rank.

After receiving four degrees from MIT (B.S.. in Biophysics, M.S., E.E., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), she has conducted research in packet-switched networks, computational modeling of the human auditory system, natural language processing, spoken dialogue systems, and second language learning.

Dr Bruce Gilley is professor of political science at Portland State University.

His research centres on comparative and international politics and public policy, and covers issues as diverse as democracy, climate change, political legitimacy, and international conflict. Watch the video

Natasha Mazzone is the public face of the DA in parliament and joined me for a Friday night conversation of laughter and seriousness that turned out to be too short.