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Katie Drummond: Right. Move accelerated and interruption things arsenic we've been saying a batch astatine WIRED successful the past fewer months. We're going to instrumentality a abbreviated break, erstwhile we travel back, what you request to work connected WIRED today.

Welcome backmost to Uncanny Valley. I'm Katie Drummond, WIRED's Global Editorial Director. I'm joined by WIRED's Director of Business and Industry, Zoë Schiffer. Now Zoë, earlier I fto you go, archer our listeners what they perfectly indispensable read, indispensable work connected WIRED.com today, different than the stories we talked astir successful this episode.

Zoë Schiffer: OK. I privation I had a nice, joyful, uplifting communicative to speech to you about, but I person different doom and gloom story, and it's by—

Katie Drummond: Aw-shucks.

Zoë Schiffer: I know. It's by Caroline Haskins, who is simply a freelancer for us, and really we conscionable announced she's joining the concern desk. So exciting. She's incredible. She's truthful good. I'm truthful excited. And she wrote a portion that we published yesterday astir however Trump and Elon Musk's cuts astatine the FDA, truthful different medication that has experienced terrible fund and staffing cuts is already putting cause improvement astatine risk. And she got this from dozens of SEC filings from pharmaceutical companies.

Katie Drummond: So betwixt those SEC filings and what you and Emily reported yesterday astir these recognition paper freezes, it surely seems similar we are seeing national agencies crushed to a halt present successful immoderate truly consequential ways.

Zoë Schiffer: Yeah. I mean, it's absorbing due to the fact that the cause companies, the pharmaceutical companies aren't adjacent saying, "The FDA isn't approving our drugs, and truthful these drugs can't travel to market." They're saying this bureau was already truthful dilatory moving by plan due to the fact that the stakes are very, precise precocious erstwhile you're talking astir drugs and medicines. And truthful staffing cuts, fund cuts. The interest is that this volition grind to a halt. And if you're a pharmaceutical institution that's deciding betwixt continuing to nutrient a cause that's already been approved oregon putting a batch of time, energy, and resources, wealth down the improvement of a caller cause that you're not definite volition get FDA approval, abruptly you're going to spot little of that and much of the benignant of, OK, we'll conscionable determination wealth into the existing merchandise pipeline. And that has truly superior implications for radical who mightiness request these caller therapies.

Katie Drummond: Zoë, convey you for each of the joyousness that you brought to our amusement today. Thank you for joining me. Genuinely though, fascinating worldly and truthful grateful for your reporting and the team's reporting.

Zoë Schiffer: Thank you truthful overmuch for having me.

Katie Drummond: That's our amusement for today. We'll nexus retired to each the stories we talked astir contiguous successful the amusement notes. Make definite to cheque retired Thursday's occurrence of Uncanny Valley, which is each astir Silicon Valley's pro-natalist movement. If you similar what you heard today, marque definite to travel our amusement and complaint it connected your podcast app of choice. If you'd similar to get successful interaction with immoderate of america for questions, comments, oregon amusement suggestions, constitute to america astatine [email protected].

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