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0:00 Yuri’s high-stakes debate on Covid’s origins
3:42 Pros and cons of Covid vaccines
10:04 Do Covid “coincidences” point to a lab leak?
21:55 Does the pattern of Covid’s initial spread suggest zoonotic origin?
27:51 Why the Wuhan market may have amplified Covid’s spread
38:59 Covid’s lineages A and B
53:29 US-China collaboration in the Wuhan lab’s virology research
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Yuri Deigin (YouthBio Therapeutics). Recorded December 03, 2024.
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Overtime titles:
0:00 Molecular biology and the lab leak hypothesis
12:12 Social pressures to support the natural origins hypothesis
27:27 How transparent was the Wuhan Institute of Virology?
38:10 Yuri’s level of confidence in the lab leak hypothesis
41:03 Can modern science help humans live for hundreds of years?
47:17 Bob and Yuri’s Bret Weinstein connection
