🚨 ALL-IN INTERVIEW! @friedberg sits down solo at the White House with @mkratsios47, Director of the Office of Science & Technology Policy: -- Anti-Science Allegations -- How $8B Went to DEI "Science" -- Why “Fauci Did More Damage Than Anyone in Modern History” -- The Climate Emergency Debate -- China Grew Science Spending 19X, While America Only Grew 3X. -- The Genesis Mission: Doubling US Science Output With AI (0:00) Michael Kratsios joins the show! (01:56) Is this administration anti-science? The Nature poll, DEI grants, and $8B down the drain (8:16) Climate science cuts: RCP 8.5 gets pulled and the "climate emergency" narrative collapses (13:45) $47B at NIH, Eroom's Law, and golden tickets: has American science stagnated? (22:24) Big bold bets: Genesis Mission, quantum by 2028, fusion by 2035, boots on the moon in '28 (34:04) The great race with China: $33B to $670B, and 7 out of 10 STEM PhDs aren't American (44:09) Fauci did more damage to science than anyone in modern history, and NIH's median researcher is 71

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