What podcasts say about Michael Kratsios
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What Michael Kratsios has said on podcasts
71 statements · 49 positive · 17 negative · 5 neutral
- on United States scientific outputPositiveAug 24, 2026· All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
The administration aims to double United States scientific output.
“We want to essentially double the scientific output of the United States.”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 0:02
The Trump administration is not anti-science.
“It is not anti science.”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 1:59
- on United States scientific leadershipPositiveAug 24, 2026· All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
The administration wants the United States to lead future scientific discoveries.
“We really want the US to be the home for the next great scientific discoveries.”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 2:15
Kratsios says American science has become deeply politicized over two decades.
“I think over the last 15 or 20 years, I think science has been deeply and deeply politicized”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 3:26
Increasing spending on unsuitable science activities is bad policy.
“spending more money on the wrong types of things is not the right policy action.”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 6:37
- on National Science Foundation grantsNeutralAug 24, 2026· All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
About 25% of Biden-era NSF grants funded DEI-related science.
“roughly 1/4, or 25% of grants at NSF during that time period went towards DEI related science.”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 7:35
Kratsios says DEI-related NSF initiatives are not legitimate science.
“And that isn't science and that shouldn't be.”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 7:55
Available data does not support describing climate change as an emergency.
“The thing that is not true and what the data does not support is that it is a climate emergency.”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 9:09
The administration has set a 2035 target for fusion energy.
“We set a target for 2035, for example, for that.”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 10:59
Clean fossil fuels could substantially improve poor households’ quality of life.
“clean fossil fuel could make a huge difference in their quality of life”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 12:05
- on Extreme climate-policy responsesNegativeAug 24, 2026· All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Extreme climate-policy responses would hurt Americans most without solving climate change.
“any of these sort of extreme policy reactions to this sort of perceived problem would inevitably hurt Americans the most and not actually solve the problem”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 13:02
Kratsios assesses that scientific progress in America has stagnated.
“our argument it has.”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 14:34
American science agencies have not innovated their research methods.
“we have not been innovative in any way on the way that we actually conduct the science.”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 15:15
NSF and NIH will test funding methods and redirect money based on results.
“we're actually going to start running experiments. Maybe there are different ways that we should be doing funding and then we can analyze those and then course correct”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 16:42
NSF golden tickets would incentivize scientists to submit more interesting grants.
“So you incentivize folks to have more interesting grants.”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 18:06
The administration proposes offering research grants with varied durations.
“we proposed in new golden age was this idea of different durations of grants”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 19:44
The administration predicts American astronauts will return to the Moon by 2028.
“we're going to have American boots back on the moon in 28.”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 23:31
The administration aims to create a scientifically relevant quantum computer by 2028.
“create a scientifically relevant Quantum computer by 2028”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 23:53
The administration aims to achieve fusion energy by 2035.
“we really want to get to fusion by 2035.”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 24:04
AI will be the largest accelerator of scientific discovery ever.
“We fundamentally believe that AI is going to be the biggest unlock to scientific discovery in the history of the world.”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 24:27
Government research funding should prioritize basic, early-stage, precompetitive research.
“we have to return the primary focus of government funded research on basic early stage, pre competitive R and D, this discovery science.”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 25:49
Private firms lack incentives for basic research, which only government can provide.
“That is an area where the private sector is not incentivized to participate in and only the government can do that.”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 25:59
- on American science and technology systemPositiveAug 24, 2026· All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Competition among American science organizations is a major systemic advantage.
“one of the most special features about our system is we do have people competing.”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 28:05
- on Postwar US science-funding modelNegativeAug 24, 2026· All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
The postwar model of government science funding is no longer sufficiently relevant.
“our answer is it's not. And we need a refresh.”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 31:40
Scientists should receive funding wherever they conduct meritorious research.
“If they're at a university, we should fund them. If they're at a focused research organization, we should fund them. If they're on their own in the garage doing incredible work and can pass a merit based review panel, we should fund them in their garage.”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 33:33
- on Scientific and technological leadershipPositiveAug 24, 2026· All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Scientific and technological leadership is foundational to economic and national security.
“technological and scientific leadership is the most important foundational block to economic and national security.”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 35:12
- on China's technology trade strategyNegativeAug 24, 2026· All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
China uses copying and dumping to drive American technology businesses out of business.
“The playbook that they have used for a long time is essentially copying rip, creating cheaper alternatives of that particular technology, dumping them in the United States, getting our businesses to go out of business and then, and then squeezing us.”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 37:16
A STEM-literate workforce is a crucial national advantage for the United States.
“having a STEM literate workforce is one of the most important superpowers we could have as a country.”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 39:20
Foreign STEM graduates who want to remain should have legal pathways to stay.
“for those who do want to stay, allow them to sort of pursue legal pathways to stay here.”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 40:59
Seven in ten US STEM PhD candidates are reportedly non-American.
“The idea that 7 out of 10 STEM related PhD candidates in the United States are not American.”
Open the episode · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & ChinaListen at 41:31
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What others have said about Michael Kratsios
1 statement · 1 positive
Michael Kratzios’s American science proposal is a strong reform blueprint.
“So it looks like a great blueprint.”
Open the episode · Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of PhysicsListen at 3:06
Statements are attributed to the speaker as said on the episode and reflect their view at the time, not PodLume's. They are not advice.