Sep 6, 2023
When I saw this clip from a TED talk I assumed that the speaker was simply a 2nd-rate crank. After all one way to get clicks on the internet is to rage post-find some outrageous example from the fringe and pretend that what you are watching is mainstream. Everybody who has to produce content is tempted to do this, and sometimes the example is so tempting that not giving in is tantamount to ignoring a slow pitch in the strike zone. This video is a slow pitch in the strike zone, but unfortunately, the speaker is actually somebody who is not a second-rate crank, but a guy who runs the NYU School of Public Health's Center for Bioethics. He is, in other words, one of the key guys in the establishment that has been bringing the COVID tyranny to America. Liao argues that the danger of climate change is so great that we should consider bioengineering human beings to make us intolerant to meat proteins. Liao's argument is striking in many ways, not the least of which is that he tells us