For several years, The Thunderbolts Project has been continuously developing new relationships with scientists in varieties of disciplines. Of all these relationships, one stands out as the most significant and the most telling. Significant in terms of the new understanding this person brought to the scientific issues, and telling in terms of the apparent professional impact this relationship may have had on this person’s career. In this podcast, David Talbott begins relating the story of his relationship with a world-renowned plasma scientist. Dave will tell us what he learned from that relationship that he applied to his own lifelong research. He will also share details of the story that bear directly on questions of academic freedom in institutional science today.
