William M. Arkin (born May 15, 1956) is an American political commentator, best-selling author, journalist, activist, blogger, and former United States Army soldier. He has previously served as a military affairs analyst for the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.  

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If anyone wants the virology paper about Lab Leak email me at: [email protected] and I will send you the PDF.  

Paul Allan Offit is an American pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, vaccines, immunology, and virology. He is the co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine. Offit is the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology, Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Former Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases (1992-2014), and the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He has been a member of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Offit is a Board Member of Every Child By Two and a Founding Board Member of the Autism Science Foundation.  Offit has published more than 130 papers in medical and scientific journals in the areas of rotavirus-specific immune responses and vaccine safety, and is the author or co-author of books on vaccines, vaccination, and antibiotics. He is one of the most public faces of the scientific consensus that vaccines have no association with autism. As a result, he has been the frequent target of hate mail and death threats.  

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*Correction: Donald Hoffman is currently a Professor at Emeritus University.

Donald D. Hoffman is a Full Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the University of Emeritus. He is the author of Visual Intelligence, as well as over one hundred scholarly articles on various aspects of human perception and cognition. He received a distinguished Distinguished Scientific Award of American Psychological Association for early career research into visual perception, the Rustum Roy Award of the Chopra Foundation, and the Troland Research Award of the US National Academy of Sciences. His TED Talk entitled “Do we see reality as it is?” has been viewed over 2.5 million times. In this interview we discuss his latest book, The Case Against Reality.  

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Evolutionary Game Theory and the relationship between Truth and our brains 

Simulation Theory 

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Space-time & Quantum Mechanics 

Whether mathematics and logic are grounded in truth 

Whether the Scientific method can ascertain reality 

Theory of conscious agents 

Free Will 

Holographic Universe 

Natural Selection 

Presentism vs Eternalism 

Meditation 

What keeps Professor Hoffman awake at night 

Meaning of life   

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Richard Walter Wrangham (born 1948) is an English anthropologist and primatologist. His research and writing have involved ape behavior, human evolution, violence, and cooking.

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Eric Smith received the Bachelor of Science in Physics and Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1987, and a Ph.D. in Physics from The University of Texas at Austin in 1993, with a dissertation on problems in string theory and high-temperature superconductivity. From 1993 to 2000 he worked in physical, nonlinear, and statistical acoustics at the Applied Research Labs: U. T. Austin, and at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. From 2000 he has worked at the Santa Fe Institute on problems of self-organization in thermal, chemical, and biological systems. A focus of his current work is the statistical mechanics of the transition from the geochemistry of the early earth to the first levels of biological organization, with some emphasis on the emergence of the metabolic network. He is also the co-author of The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth: The Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere.

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Andrew Knoll is the Fisher Professor of Natural History at Harvard University. He received his B.A. in Geology from Lehigh University in 1973 and his Ph.D., also in Geology, from Harvard in 1977. Following five years on the faculty of Oberlin College, Knoll returned to Harvard as Associate Professor of Biology in 1982.  He has been a member of the Harvard faculty ever since, serving as both Professor of Biology and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Professor Knoll’s research focuses on the early evolution of life, Earth’s environmental history, and, especially, the interconnections between the two. For the past decade, he has served on the science team for NASA’s MER mission to Mars. He is also considered one of the 50 most influential scientists in the world today according to the best schools.org.  

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Matthew Cobb is a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester, where he studies olfaction, insect behavior, and the history of science. He earned his PhD in psychology and genetics from the University of Sheffield. He is the author of five books: Life's Greatest Secret, Generation, The Resistance, Eleven Days in August, and Smell: A Very Short Introduction. He lives in England.  

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