The Nobel Prize for Understanding Autoimmune Disease
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Lairn on WNYC. |
| 0:13.6 | Good morning again, everyone. |
| 0:15.8 | Today for our Health and Climate Tuesday section of the show, which we do every week. |
| 0:20.6 | We're going to be on the |
| 0:21.2 | health side. And this is the week the Nobel Prizes are awarded, right? Will President Trump's |
| 0:26.8 | dream for the Peace Prize come true on Friday is the thing that most of the media are focusing |
| 0:32.0 | on? Of course, we'll have to wait till Friday to find out. We will cover the Nobel Peace Prize winner, |
| 0:36.9 | whoever it is on Friday's show. Case you're interested, by the will cover the Nobel Peace Prize winner, whoever it is, on Friday's |
| 0:38.1 | show. Case you're interested, by the way, the website, Sportsbook Review, looked at various |
| 0:44.0 | betting sites and concluded that the favorite for the Nobel Peace Prize is Yulia Navalia, |
| 0:50.6 | widow of Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalia, who wound up in prison and then dead in prison |
| 0:55.6 | on Vladimir Putin's watch. |
| 0:57.9 | Sportsbook review says Yulia Navalia is seen as having about a 34% chance of winning the peace prize. |
| 1:04.7 | But guess what? |
| 1:05.5 | Trump is right behind with 32% betting odds behind them and also seen as in the running are Volodymyr Zelensky, |
| 1:14.2 | UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, activist Greta Toonberg, NATO as an organization, |
| 1:21.1 | and chef Jose Andres, founder of the Hunger Relief Organization, World Central Kitchen, |
| 1:26.5 | which, as many of you know, lost |
| 1:29.1 | seven of its workers in an Israeli drone attack in the war in Gaza. I don't know if anyone |
| 1:35.1 | actually bets on Nobel Peace Prizes, but the books do put out the odds. So we will note |
| 1:43.7 | the answer to that on Friday. |
| 1:45.3 | Maybe some of you will have won or lost money on the Nobel Peace Prize winner. |
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