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Super Soldiers, Bioweapons, and Soviet Ape-Human Hybrids
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Rogan asks what country tried to invest $160 million in Sinclair's company before the US government blocked it on national security grounds — Sinclair stays coy, saying it was somewhere 'between here and China.' The conversation spirals into a fascinating digression about the darker applications of biological enhancement, with Rogan recounting the allegedly Stalin-backed Soviet program in the 1920s led by physiologist Ilya Ivanov to crossbreed humans and apes for an 'invincible' army. Sinclair notes that a scientist in New York is legally creating human-animal hybrid embryos today. The two agree that while American regulatory frameworks provide guardrails, the global landscape is far less controlled, and that longevity and strength-enhancement technologies pose genuine national security concerns.
There are 40 million people in the United States alone who suffer from glaucoma, illustrating the scale of the potential impact of Sinclair's gene therapy.
