Every 10 years, some report comes out and says the world's not going to survive another 10 years. And that's always been wrong. Since forever. I think as long as we let them entrepreneurs are going to find ways to improve all our lives over the coming decades. Ridley: If we turn our back on the enlightenment, then all bets are off. We might achieve the same results if we Blog up the arteries of the economy with far too much delay and indecision from bureaucrats.
When Matt Ridley joined us most recently, he and co-author Alina Chan - a molecular biologist specializing in gene therapy and cell engineering - had just released Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19, which defends why people ought to take the SARS-CoV-2 lab-leak hypothesis seriously.
One year later - now that the politicization regarding every aspect of Covid has subdued - Matt rejoins the podcast to discuss what he's learned over the past twelve months.
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