Christopher E. Mason
Geneticist and Computational Biologist
Christopher E. Mason is a geneticist and computational biologist who has been a principal investigator and co-investigator of 11 NASA missions and projects. Mason is a professor of genomics, physiology, and biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine and the director of the WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction. He also holds affiliate appointments at the New York Genome Center, Yale Law School, and the Consortium for Space Genetics at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds.
Predictive power has perverse, anti-democratic consequences. So be a good citizen and lie to election pollsters.
“Right now all of our eggs are in one basket and the basket is called Earth.”
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