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The Jordan Harbinger Show

958: Alison Young | Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Business, Education, Science

4.8 β€’ 12.3K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Did the COVID-19 pandemic start with a lab leak? Pandora's Gamble author Alison Young is here to crunch the numbers without entertaining conspiracies!

What We Discuss with Alison Young:
  • How often disease research lab leaks really occur.
  • Why even the world's best-run labs are susceptible to safety breaches.
  • The prevalence of disinformation campaigns to cover up, obscure, or misdirect lab leak blame.
  • What gain-of-function research is and why it's so controversial.
  • What we do and don't know about the possibility of the COVID-19 pandemic being the result of a lab leak in Wuhan, China.
  • And much more...

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And in theory, building a biosafety level 3, level 4 lab

0:16.0

should be a good thing.

0:17.5

But if they're not properly maintained,

0:19.5

if the people in them are not trained,

0:21.5

if they're not following the protocols,

0:23.7

all it does is give potentially a false sense of security.

0:27.1

The Government Accountability Office in the United States

0:29.4

has been warning more than a decade at this point.

0:32.4

The more of these experiments with dangerous

0:35.1

pathogens that are done, it increases the risk of a catastrophic accident.

0:44.0

Welcome to the show.

0:45.0

I'm Jordan Harbinger.

0:47.0

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0:49.0

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0:51.0

and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can

0:53.8

use to impact your own life and those around you.

0:56.5

Our mission is to help you become a better informed, more critical thinker through long-form

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1:06.5

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