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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: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ 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.”
Ben Lamm Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 9:01 Race to Save Humanity: Inside $12B Colossal Biosciences & $3.8B Astromech
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?”
Ben Lamm Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 24:09 Race to Save Humanity: Inside $12B Colossal Biosciences & $3.8B Astromech
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.”
Ben Lamm Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 26:39 Race to Save Humanity: Inside $12B Colossal Biosciences & $3.8B Astromech
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.”
Ben Lamm Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 9:53 Race to Save Humanity: Inside $12B Colossal Biosciences & $3.8B Astromech
Assertion Partly supported
Lamm: Invasive species represent a half-trillion-dollar global problem
“So invasive species is like half a trillion dollar problem globally.”
Ben Lamm Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 16:04 Race to Save Humanity: Inside $12B Colossal Biosciences & $3.8B Astromech
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.”
Ben Lamm Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 48:18 Race to Save Humanity: Inside $12B Colossal Biosciences & $3.8B Astromech
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.”
Ben Lamm Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 30:04 Race to Save Humanity: Inside $12B Colossal Biosciences & $3.8B Astromech
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.”
Ben Lamm Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 57:47 Race to Save Humanity: Inside $12B Colossal Biosciences & $3.8B Astromech
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