S04E45 - Resurrecting Dire Wolves and Moa Bad Ideas

We discuss the sketchy "science by press release" of Colossal Biosciences and the controversies lurking in the history of its lead scientist. Have they resurrected dire wolves? No. Definitely not. If only overblown celebrity endorsed hype was the only problem…

Did they make a Dire Wolf? (Spoiler: NOT EVEN REMOTELY CLOSE) (reddit.com/r/pleistocene/comments/1jtl6zm/colo…)

George Church's explanation of Epstein ties (statnews.com/2019/08/05/citing-nerd-tunnel-vis…)

James Arthur Ray - Guru of Death? (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Arthur_Ray)

Tony Robbins (gq.com.au/culture/entertainment/punishing-foll…) (more fromQuora (quora.com/Is-Tony-Robbins-a-scam-or-con-artist…) andReddit (reddit.com/r/TonyRobbins/comments/w8s4cw/tony_…))

Peter Jackson and the Moa (archive.today/7PwGR)

George R. R. Martin and the Dire Wolf (archive.today/HllbO)

For a more… salacious take on this, check out the 2-part "Behind the Bastards" coverage of this topic.Part 1 (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-one-dire-wo…) andPart 2. (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-two-dire-wo…)

--- on a more positive note ---
What is CRISPR (news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/06/stanford-exp…)?

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