TL;DR please.
These brothers are smart and often interesting but they are also both audibly quite taken with their own brilliance and often not what I want to listen to.
These brothers are smart and often interesting but they are also both audibly quite taken with their own brilliance and often not what I want to listen to.
Drugs that have been developed using these mice could have a higher toxicity than the lab mice data suggests. Weinstein uses the Vioxx scandal as a possible example of such a drug.
Eric Weinstein's 2hr+ Portal Podcast #19 on YouTube is frustrating but I'd summarize the "new" info from memory as:
- math oriented older brother Eric thinks biology oriented younger brother Bret is Nobel Prize worthy
- yet Bret and his mouse telomere paper live in obscurity
- reason 1: Bret chose Evergreen rather than a top tier University
- reason 2: the science establishment is biased against disruptive ideas and scientists
- Carol Greider’s 2009 Nobel Prize was based on work inspired by informal phone calls and emails from Bret
- Bret claims that Greider failed to recognize his contribution and then actively undermined his paper(s) through the peer review process
I wish we had TL;DR + Start/Stop Links into the original video. Long form audio/video podcasts are both a boon and a curse since the content cannot easily be searched or linked to.
Bret is quick to point out that Dr. Greider's Nobel prize is well deserved and for related, but earlier work. The contention is over later work.
Their conversation did inspire these findings about lab mice telomeres. But Dr. Greider's lab decided to keep the information "in house". This means that instead of publishing the source of the information, they can use their knowledge to start predicting other results, and publish a full stream of paper first. This is at 1:23:50.
She discovered telomerase in 1984 and had decades of research on it. She didn't win the prize from a phone call with Bret.