Topic: Actuary

Senator Ron Johnson hosted a symposium featuring experts like Ed Dowd to discuss excess mortality rates and vaccine injuries. Dowd presented actuarial data showing a 40% increase in excess mortality among working-age individuals in 2021. The discussion suggests a wave of future lawsuits against doctors and pharmaceutical companies like Moderna.

Several producers are knighted, including Sir Short Stack and Sir Xenonymous. A discussion about the actuarial profession leads to a mention of a feature article about the No Agenda show in the Century City Gazette, which noted the show's "mention by omission" in the Mueller Report.

Paul Roberson, a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, is dubbed "Sir Paul Mountain Mentat of the Monongahela." The hosts look up the definition of "Mentat," discovering its origins in the "Dune" universe as a human replacement for computers. Roberson also requests a serving of "Sappho and spice."

The hosts discuss the history of Progressive Insurance, noting its origins as a data-driven company that used actuarial tables to predict driver risk. They argue that the insurance industry's ultimate goal is to acquire DNA data to perform advanced risk management, potentially denying coverage to individuals based on genetic predispositions to diseases. They warn that the "nothing to hide" argument regarding privacy fails to account for how personal data can be used for financial exclusion.