why aren't all 8 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Assertion Contradicted
Lamm: Woolly mice are second most genetically modified organisms behind dire wolves
“These are the second most genetically modified
Multicellular organisms on the planet after our direwolves.”
Assertion Partly supported
Lamm: ViaGen cloning efficiency reached 80% versus 2% industry norm
“Well, Viagen had like cloning efficiencies at 80%, or most people are at two percent, right?”
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Lamm: Earth is forecasted to lose 50% of biodiversity within 25 years
“It's currently forecasted that we're going to lose up to 50% of all biodiversity in the next 25 years.”
Assertion Partly supported
Lamm: Colossal achieved world-record multiplex gene editing in healthy woolly mice
“We had a hundred percent healthy mice born with exactly the predicted phenotypes with the most multiplex edited delivered at one time ever.”
Assertion Partly supported
Lamm: Invasive species represent a half-trillion-dollar global problem
“So invasive species is like half a trillion dollar problem globally.”
Assertion Supported
Lamm: Claude Opus cannot perform ancestral state reconstruction or comparative genomics
“Turns out that like, you know, Opus doesn't do like an ancestral state reconstruction of like a genome and like it doesn't like build comparative genomics models.”
Assertion Partly supported
Lamm: 20% of baby elephants die from EEHV
“Most people don't know that 20% of baby elephants die because of EEHV.”
Assertion Supported
Lamm: No Megalodon DNA exists and Colossal is not reviving it
“There is no Megalodon DNA and if there was, it would be terrible to make, I mean, the ocean's scary enough, but we do get the request of Megalodon quite a bit. We're not working on Megalodon.”