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Matt Ridley is a biologist, journalist, businessman and author, who spent nine years as science editor at The Economist. As a member of the House of Lords between 2013 and 2021, Matt served on both the science and technology and artificial intelligence committees.
He writes a weekly column in The Times and regularly contributes his thoughts for the Wall Street Journal, while his TED talk “When Ideas Have Sex” has been viewed well over two million times.
Alongside this, Matt is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Academy of Medical Sciences, and a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also the honorary president of the International Centre for Life in Newcastle.
As an author, Matt’s books including The Red Queen, The Origins of Virtue, Genome, Nature via Nurture, Francis Crick, The Rational Optimist, The Evolution of Everything, and How Innovation Works, have sold over a million copies, and been translated into 31 languages, winning numerous awards.
His latest book, and something I can’t wait to take a deep dive into on today’s episode is called “Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19”.
“How the Covid-19 pandemic started may be the keenest mystery of our lifetime… If we do not find out how this pandemic began, we are ill-equipped to know when, where and how the next pandemic may start.”
Matt believes it is vitally important we understand how the pandemic began and that this issue requires urgent investigation, something mainstream scientists, journalists and politicians have been reluctant to do.
Alongside his co-author, genetic engineering expert Dr Alina Chan, the book scrutinises every conceivable ..
