Hi, everybody. This is Gadsad. Today I've got a fantastic repeat guest who only recently came on the show.

Theoretical physicist and academic celebrity, Lawrence Krauss. How are you doing, sir?

That's a fine introduction. It's always good to see you, Gad.

You too. So today, we put this together very quickly because tomorrow the world is excited about the,

yeah, okay, you got it.

I don't have my physical copy yet, so I can't do it.

The War on Science, edited by Krause himself, 39 renowned scientists and scholars

speak out about current threats to free speech, open inquiry, and the scientific process.

For people who don't know what an edited book is, you have one person, or possibly more,

who are sort of serving as the orchestrator of the whole project, and then a whole bunch of

people contribute individual chapters. Take it away. Tell us how this came about, Lawrence,

the people that are in it, and so on.

Okay. And I should say that one of the extremely, very, very, very distinguished contributors is one person that I'm talking to right now, Gat said. And I'm very happy, God, that you

contributed to the book. And it's a lovely, lovely piece as not surprising. The way,

look, both you and I and you for a long time, I know,

but for you and I for a long time,

I've been talking about issues that are in the way of science

and scholarship and getting in the way of academia,

your own institution and many institutions.

And the question is how to deal with this internal culture war.

And as you know, and I'm sure people are listening to you know,

many faculty are either afraid to speak out because they see what happens,

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