Just finished listening. As a retired high school teacher, I'm interested in Dr. Summer's perspective, but I am always confused by it. He always tries to have it both ways and thinks that by splitting hairs, he's being somehow, 'honest.' But the short section in which he praises American higher education by saying it was the birthplace o…
Just finished listening. As a retired high school teacher, I'm interested in Dr. Summer's perspective, but I am always confused by it. He always tries to have it both ways and thinks that by splitting hairs, he's being somehow, 'honest.' But the short section in which he praises American higher education by saying it was the birthplace of things like mRNA vaccines, Moderna and Google (he did not mention Facebook...), it told me all I needed to know, I think. mRNA is a not-ready-for-prime-time technology that has harmed millions of people and done very little to save anyone. Moderna is a criminal backwater pharma co. that has done nothing positive other than copy mRNA technology (see last statement), and Google? Sure--we all use it. And Google uses us. Thanks, Dr. Summers. I think I get you now. You're free to move along and become irrelevant.
Just finished listening. As a retired high school teacher, I'm interested in Dr. Summer's perspective, but I am always confused by it. He always tries to have it both ways and thinks that by splitting hairs, he's being somehow, 'honest.' But the short section in which he praises American higher education by saying it was the birthplace of things like mRNA vaccines, Moderna and Google (he did not mention Facebook...), it told me all I needed to know, I think. mRNA is a not-ready-for-prime-time technology that has harmed millions of people and done very little to save anyone. Moderna is a criminal backwater pharma co. that has done nothing positive other than copy mRNA technology (see last statement), and Google? Sure--we all use it. And Google uses us. Thanks, Dr. Summers. I think I get you now. You're free to move along and become irrelevant.