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Now it's time for the last word hosted by the great Ali Valsh.

Good evening, Ali.

Hi, friend. I'm really glad that you started off with the protests about science around this country.

I was talking to Chris Hayes the other day about the National Institutes of Health,

probably the best return on investment for your taxpayer dollar there is in America.

These GLP-1s, OZMPIC, things like this, the people associate with weight loss, but they're really to fight diabetes.

Diabetes and heart disease, biggest killers in this country, discovered by two scientists working at the NIH under a taxpayer-funded grant.

We all think Novo Nordisk came to market with these things.

They commercialized it.

But the drugs were in, they're inventing drugs at the NIH that are going to save our lives.

And we don't even know from illnesses we don't even know exist or that we have.

Yeah.

I mean, every treatment and intervention, every treatment and

vaccine and preventive intervention with a pharmacological nexus of the last 20 to 30 years,

you can trace in one way or another back to NIH. And to just cut them wholesale is so,

what's the word, stupid? Yeah. Yeah. That it's, it was cathartic today to see so

many people out there today standing up for science.

And I appreciate you focusing on those various protests just about the science part, because

it's hard to know what you're fighting for in this craziness that's going on.

When they're cutting all these things

that are not household names that you don't think about all the time it is important for people

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