Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, April 3rd,

2023 and I'm the host of the show, Kara Santa Maria. And before we dive

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talk nerdy. All right, let's dive into this week's episode. I have the

opportunity to speak with the brilliant author of the new book,

The Battle for Your Brain, defending the right to think freely in the age of

neuro-technology. Her name is Dr. Nita Ferrer. of and philosophy at Duke Law School.

She's the founding director of Duke Science and Society,

the faculty chair of the Duke MA

in bioethics and science policy,

and principal investigator of the SLAP lab and that's SLAP for science law and policy lab.

So without any further ado, here she is Dr. Nita Farahani.

Well, Nita, thank you so much for joining me today.

Thank you for having me.

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