World Economic Forum video from 7 years ago...
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The speaker's name is Jennifer Doudna. , and she is a World Economic Forum acolyte. I guess the competition at Berkeley is so fierce that it breeds the ethics right out of their thinking.
There goes my respect for Pomona College. Wikipedia explains that "She graduated from Pomona College in 1985 and earned a Ph.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1989." The Personal Life" section of her Wikipedia bio was one of the strangest bios I'd ever read. The tone of it suggests that her career was wide open, that she had very few impediments to any career choice she sought. This just doesn't happen unless you're politically connected. You just don't hop from university to university on a whim AND get your spouse a teaching position or a post-doc research position on a whim or the toss of a dime. But not Jennifer Doudna and her spouses. Wow, you don't get more politically connected than the Pope,
In 2021, Pope Francis appointed Doudna, and two other female Nobel laureates Donna Strickland and Emmanuelle Charpentier, as members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
Take a look for yourself, and tell me she didn't move in her career nonchalantly as if she knew there would be no challenge or resistance to any decision she would make in tandem with a spouse. I've known couples trying to get teaching positions at the same high school, and the principal thwarted those efforts. Yet here is Jennifer Doudna and her spouses and she just bounces around the country like she's on tour. Just take a look at some of the phrases in the Wikipedia bio,
"both accepted faculty positions at Berkeley and moved there together," as though Berkeley kneeled at their feet in the hopes that they would sign on there. "They both accepted . . . and "moved there together." And as to her divorce from Tom Griffin, it was not due to disagreements, no. It was due to Tom having broader interests: "but his interests were more broad and less focused on research than hers and they divorced a few years later."
Griffin wanted a bit more. "Griffin wanted to move to Boulder, Colorado, where Doudna was also interested in working with Thomas Cech." It's like there's no cause and effect, no wrinkle, no detail of their lives whatsoever in this bio. On the contrary, it's all washed over. Is this what the World Economic Forum can do for you? I guess fascists have to recruit from within. I mean why would fascist organizations pave the way for someone whom they knew was antithetical to their viewpoints, values, and principles. So this is what the world is made up of today? Principles.
Doudna's first marriage was in 1988 to a fellow graduate student at Harvard named Tom Griffin, but his interests were more broad and less focused on research than hers and they divorced a few years later. Griffin wanted to move to Boulder, Colorado, where Doudna was also interested in working with Thomas Cech. As a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado, Doudna met Jamie Cate, then a graduate student; they worked together on the project to crystallize and determine the structure of the Tetrahymena Group I intron P4-P6 catalytic region. Doudna brought Cate with her to Yale, and they married in Hawaii in 2000. Cate later became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Doudna followed him to Boston at Harvard, but in 2002 they both accepted faculty positions at Berkeley and moved there together; Cate preferred the less formal environment on the West Coast to his earlier experiences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Doudna liked that Berkeley is a public university.
