People become passionate about their horse in that race. They don't really have more than an intuition. It seems about whether it's going to across a finish line or not, and make it. And i find the distinction interesting between the leader of the lab, am who has various posttocks, and others working for him or her. In some ways, hat's a portfolio approach. But there's no portfolio approach there. Ta, it's just come all in on something, and it may not work, and you may not have a paper. If youdont have a paper, you can't get a job. You're stuck. The pressures build, and it goes on for
In the race for a COVID vaccine, how did a couple of companies who had never produced a successful vaccine make it to the finish line so quickly? Gregory Zuckerman talks about his book, A Shot to Save the World, with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the daring, deranged, and damaged visionaries behind one of science and medicine's great success stories.