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🗓️ 20 September 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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0:00.0 | Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Wherever you are out there in the world, it's |
0:17.0 | time to step out onto the high wire. Today I want to start out today's show. I'm |
0:24.7 | debuting a brand new segment. I'm going to call geniuses of science. I saw this headline and I just |
0:35.4 | keep seeing headlines just like this one we're going to get into almost every week now, which |
0:41.1 | really begs the question, who's running the show? What's going on here? Take a look at this story |
0:47.2 | that came out of Yale News. Transgender mosquito, I mean, transgenic mosquitoes pass on genes |
0:55.6 | to native species. It opens with this sentence, transgenic mosquitoes released in Brazil in an |
1:02.0 | effort to reduce the population of disease-bearing insects have successfully bred and passed on genes |
1:09.6 | to the native mosquito population. I mean, when you read these articles, it's like the opening to a |
1:16.8 | science fiction horror movie. I mean, in the end, so obviously we knew Zika was a big deal, |
1:22.8 | a couple of years ago everyone's freaking out, out about Zika. We had, you know, Olympia is not |
1:27.6 | going to the Olympics to compete because of Zika. And just to sort of take you back there really |
1:34.8 | quickly, microcephaly was the issue. All of a sudden, there was, you know, many, many babies being |
1:41.6 | born with misshapen smaller heads. And we decided that it was the Zika virus had somehow mutated |
1:50.2 | overnight. Now Zika has been present for, I think at that point, a hundred years or more, |
1:55.6 | all over the world, different places. It never caused microcephaly before, but they were sure it |
2:01.2 | had mutated. And therefore, we've got to stop the mosquitoes. Now, I predicted then that this |
2:06.8 | story was a hoax. It was all, you know, they had a brand new Zika virus vaccine that they wanted |
2:11.8 | to launch on the world. But this was one of the attempts they were going to make to sort of stop |
2:16.6 | these mosquito-born illnesses. And so let's read some of this article. You get a sense, but basically |
2:21.5 | we're talking about hybrid mosquitoes or GMO mosquitoes. We talked about this before. And I said, |
2:27.6 | what could possibly go wrong? Look at that really smart looking guy. We're going to put our world's |
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