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Justin Kolbeck

Co-Founder & CEO, Wildtype · 1 appearance on the record.

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8statements → 5claims → 2claims resolved → 3.88/5average certainty → 1.5/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated →

1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

3 predictions · 2 assertions · 1 opinion · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Justin argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Kolbeck: Roughly half of a caught fish's weight is discarded
“Half of, roughly, half of a fish's weight gets thrown away or discarded between the time it's caught and the time it shows up on your plate, right? Things like fins and bones and so on that we don't consume.”
Justin Kolbeck Jun 2, 2022 ▶ 24:06 HIBT Lab! Wildtype: Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Kolbeck: Humans ingest a credit card's worth of microplastics weekly
“The number that I can't get out of my head is five grams or the equivalent of a credit card worth of microplastics that Going to our bodies every week.”
Justin Kolbeck Jun 2, 2022 ▶ 19:58 HIBT Lab! Wildtype: Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck

How they sound: not measured why? →

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Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kolbeck: Current global meat and seafood consumption rates are unsustainable
“It was clear that at some point, eating meat and seafood at the rate we are is not going to work anymore, right? For all the reasons you mentioned, there's environmental reasons, there's sort of humane reasons. There's economic reasons.”
Justin Kolbeck Jun 2, 2022 ▶ 12:47 HIBT Lab! Wildtype: Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck
Assertion Contradicted
Kolbeck: Humans ingest a credit card's worth of microplastics weekly
“The number that I can't get out of my head is five grams or the equivalent of a credit card worth of microplastics that Going to our bodies every week.”
Justin Kolbeck Jun 2, 2022 ▶ 19:58 HIBT Lab! Wildtype: Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kolbeck: Nutritious wild seafood will become increasingly inaccessible to most
“Strongly rising demand with pinched supply means some of our healthiest, most nutritious seafoods are only going to become further and further out of reach of many people.”
Justin Kolbeck Jun 2, 2022 ▶ 21:28 HIBT Lab! Wildtype: Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kolbeck: Ocean biodiversity will vanish by 2050 without drastic intervention
“If we don't seriously turn things around by the middle part of the century, we can just say goodbye to the biodiversity that exists in our oceans today.”
Justin Kolbeck Jun 2, 2022 ▶ 35:50 HIBT Lab! Wildtype: Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck
Disclosure
Kolbeck: Wildtype prototyped a cell-cultivated foie gras in mere months
“So we were able to make some foie gras, like a, you know, a fairly small amount and people, people tried it. I remember the first person that we invited to try it was a friend of ours in San Francisco. And, you know, it was tiny amount, like so small that it w…”
Justin Kolbeck Jun 2, 2022 ▶ 15:53 HIBT Lab! Wildtype: Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck
Assertion Supported
Kolbeck: Roughly half of a caught fish's weight is discarded
“Half of, roughly, half of a fish's weight gets thrown away or discarded between the time it's caught and the time it shows up on your plate, right? Things like fins and bones and so on that we don't consume.”
Justin Kolbeck Jun 2, 2022 ▶ 24:06 HIBT Lab! Wildtype: Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck
Disclosure
Kolbeck: Wildtype will launch in select restaurants before grocery retail
“We'll be, you know, probably a small handful of restaurants around the country when, once we get that green light, but we actually have started conversations with some of these big grocery chains.”
Justin Kolbeck Jun 2, 2022 ▶ 39:30 HIBT Lab! Wildtype: Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck
Opinion
Kolbeck: Wildtype's 2019 debut cultivated salmon lacked visual appeal
“Looking back on those pictures today, I mean, I can't help but cringing because it just didn't have the same visual appeal and structure that people would expect from salmon.”
Justin Kolbeck Jun 2, 2022 ▶ 27:26 HIBT Lab! Wildtype: Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
HIBT Lab! Wildtype: Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck Jun 2, 2022 14m
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