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[02:43:39] and I just want to read a bunch of names that people who mattered to me, and if I've done anything wrong, this is no reflection on them. [[Marcus du Sautoy]], [[Peter Thiel]], [[Isadore Singer]], [[Raoul Bott]], [[Michael Grossberg]], Adil Abdulali, Harry and Sophie Rubin, Bret Weinstein and family, Heather Heying and Zach and Toby.

[02:43:59] Peter Freyd, Scott Axlerod, Nima Arkani Hamed, Louis Alverez Gaume, [[Edward Frankel]]. Dror Bar Natan, [[Shlomo Sternberg]], [[David Kazhdan]], Karen and Les Weinstein, Haynes Miller, Ralph Gomory, John Tate, [[Sidney Coleman]], Graeme Segal, Robert Hermann, and Hira and Esther Malaney. Errors and omissions because I've too many people to thank are all my own. As for the claims that should reflect badly on no one else other than myself.

[02:44:31] In most, especially, I just want to say that I've asked a tremendous amount from my family to stick with me on this quixotic quest. I want to thank Pia Malaney, Naila Weinstein, and Zev Weinstein. I love you all very much, and thank you for making this possible. I do want to leave you with one thought.

[02:44:51] I really think that we've gotten completely bent out of shape about trying to force a formalize and routinize science. It doesn’t work. You cannot mandate sciences, social engineering. You can't decide that science is always in the zeitgeists and done by committee. In fact, it is essential to understand that science will not conform to what you want.

[02:45:13] One of the things that I, I'm very proud of, I think is quite true is the saying that great science has the scientific method as its radio edit. I don't think that great science is actually done the way we say it's done. And I think that directs 1963 Scientific American article should be read by absolute absolutely everyone.

[02:45:37] Every time major theories have come out, they've almost always been wrong, but they're not wrong in an important way and I think that we have to fix the political economy of people racing to correct theories or point out that there is no agreement with the experiment. We are killing many of our best ideas by creating a terrible and combative environment, which already attempts to apportion credit for work.

[02:46:38] Credit and it profoundly pushed me away from the community. We have to become more ethical and we have to honor the people who are trying to speak and act imaginatively. Now, if this doesn't work, if it's silly, I'll have egg on my face and I'll go on, I'll be fine. But I'm very worried that maybe some of the best ideas are between the ears of people without the confidence in the chutzpah and just the sort of almost psychotic drive to push things across the finishing line.  

We've got to be kinder and nicer and more decent and stop stealing people's lives, their credit, their future, and their ability to have families and make a living. And that's absolutely essential. Well to me, and I look forward to finding out whether this theory has merit to it or is without merit, but I guarantee that if I'm going to go down with the ship, I'm also not going to be knocked off the ship, as I was many years ago.

[02:47:39] Completely unfairly, and I won't dwell on it. But the amount of power you professors have is absolutely almost without parallel because nobody really understands enough to adjudicate disputes that happen in academics. I'm going to insert just that we fund you better and that you are nicer to the people who depend upon you in this beautiful chain that we call a science, scientific method.