Kevin McKernan Human Genome scientist explains the evolution of viruses & the value of free markets

Kevin McKernan believes there are too many scientists paid from tax money, and that the free market would have handled the Coronavirus crisis much more precisely if the government had not intervened. His controversial ideas are explained with detail and a level of understanding that is simply amazing. I felt genuinely uncomfortable as he approached topics that are controversial, but his nuance made the conversation particularly compelling and interesting. Kevin is the CSO and Founder of Medicinal Genomics and has pioneered the genomics of cannabis and hemp to build a stronger scientific environment (Kannapedia.net) for the study of cannabis based therapeutics and blockchain technologies for tracking and verifying cannabis genetics. Previously, Kevin was the CSO of Courtagen Life Sciences, Inc., and was Vice President and Director of R&D of Life Technologies where he managed the development of Life Technologies next generation SOLiD sequencing technology. Integral to the SOLiD R&D process, Kevin oversaw over 100 research collaborations exploring the new biological frontiers with next generation sequencing and saw particular excitement and traction in human tumor sequencing. Kevin initiated an R&D project to investigate chemFET semiconductor based DNA sequencing and spearheaded a process to acquire the DNA sequencing company Ion Torrent for $350M. These collaborations resulted in hundreds of publications and 7 Journal covers from Science Translational Medicine to Nature. Ke