Elon's 6 Engineers/ Unelected/ RFK Jr/ MMR vaccines/ DEI/ USAID and NIH funding complaints

Plenary Session

Vinay Prasad, MD MPH

Health, Medicine, Policy, Oncology, Science & Medicine

4.7 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

I'm talking about USAID and Elon's team of six engineers; the Bobby Kennedy Jr hearings, particularly concerning Samoa; MMR vaccines; DEI; and NIH funding complaints.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the channel.
0:02.0	In this video, I'm going to be talking about a few things.
0:04.0	I'm going to be talking about the Bobby Kennedy Jr.
0:08.0	Hearings, particularly Samoa.
0:10.0	I'm going to be talking about DEI and the NIH.
0:13.0	And if you're watching this on YouTube, it's going to be a single, uncut video.
0:17.0	If you're watching this on Instagram, it's going to be a series of clips.
0:20.0	So that's what I'm going to break up these topics.
0:21.9	All right, let's get started.
0:24.0	You know, I was reading that Elon Musk has identified six engineers, and he's brought them into Doge,
0:30.6	and right now they're taking the axe to USAID, a U.S. organization that takes $50 billion a year and gives it out globally.
0:38.9	They put the names of these six kids out and they named them as government employees being brought in for this
0:45.5	task by Elon and they were all between the ages of 19 and 24. And Wired Magazine was intensely
0:51.3	critical. What can these young kids teach us about government efficiency?
0:56.1	Why do they have such a huge role in treasury and USAID? What can they do? And I saw online
1:02.4	people were intensely critical of these boys, young men. I had a chance to read about a couple
1:08.1	of them. And here's what I learned. One, they say this kid is the savant in computer science.
1:13.6	He went to UC Berkeley.
1:15.1	His colleague says, the night before the examination was due,
1:19.4	he accidentally deleted pages and pages of code.
1:22.4	And this guy just calmly sat there and said,
1:25.4	well, I'll rewrite the whole thing from memory tonight.
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