George Church
14 statements across 2 episodes · 10 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Ross Anderson · said 8 times in 1 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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2019 8 mentions in 1 episode
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Jan 2, 2019 positive
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Church: Most medical data sharing for research is an inaccessible silo
“What a lot of people call sharing, even to this day, you know, 13 years later, they call sharing medical data for research is really a silo that's hard to get into. Unfortunately, it's not impossible to get into. It's not really encrypted the way you would wan…”
Apr 1, 2019 neutral
Church: Labs should avoid competition by collaborating or leaving crowded fields
“You try not to compete with other labs if you can avoid it. Sometimes it's unavoidable, but you can avoid it by inviting them to work with them. Leaving alone fields where there's plenty of momentum and a lack of interest in collaboration.”
Apr 1, 2019 positive
Church: The Church Lab prioritizes niceness over genius when recruiting researchers
“So then the biggest filter for me, and I tell this in the first interview, the first conversation I have, is we're looking for people that are nice. We're not necessarily looking for geniuses. We got plenty of geniuses. We're looking for people that are nice.”
Apr 1, 2019 positive
Church: Targeting HIV via CRISPR is more justifiable than Mendelian diseases
“Yeah, I think that we want an example of a disease that is very common, and most of the gene therapies are rare, whether they're editing or not, and we want something that's very serious, and certainly HIV falls in that category, So it struck me as a plausibly…”
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Church: Mammoth project aims for ecological hybrids, not true de-extinction
“But for the mammoth, there are lots of reasons. Both for the environment and for enriching the diversity of a living endangered species. So this is not about de-extinction. This is about making hybrids, and many of the species are already hybrids of multiple s…”
Apr 1, 2019 positive
Apr 1, 2019 neutral
Apr 1, 2019 positive
Church: Strong encryption lets individuals refuse genomic subpoenas
“And if it's encrypted so that even you can't hack it, then you can just say, sorry, it's out of my hands. I don't have my genome. If you want my genome, you're going to have to steal it from me. Right? And I think that's where we are today, finally.”