Heard Tell w/ Andrew Donaldson For 01NOV22

The Problem w/COVID “Amnesty”, Environment, Updating the FDA, w/ Elise Amez-Droz & Tyler Duvelius

Your Heard Tell for Tuesday, November 1st, 2022, is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by cutting through the online reaction to Emily Oster’s call for a COVID-19 pandemic “amnesty” and dealing with the the core problem of not only the crisis as it was, but how it happened in the first place to try and learn something before the next one. Elise Amez-Droz of Young Voices returns to the program to discuss proposed legislation to update the FDA, changing mandantory drug testing on animals, and how there are plenty of laws and regs on the books like this one from 1938, and how laws going forward to shouldn’t be specific to the tech of the moment to stifle innovation. Plus, Tyler Duvelius of the Conservative Energy Network joins Heard Tell to talk about how innovation in clean energy and green technology should be local and state level up, not federal and top level down, being realistic about the pace of the “green revolution”, and how to have a better discourse when it comes to the intersection of politics, policy, and the environment. Also, we go to…