Researchers Who Had No Choice But To Study Themselves

Go to https://80000hours.org/scishow, or click in the description or pinned comment to pre-order your copy of their updated career guide. Learn what makes a high-impact career, get new ideas for impactful paths, make a new plan based on what you've learned, and put it into action. Patient-scientists, me-searchers, or just researchers who study their own conditions are all over science. This video shines a light on the work of David Fajgenbaum, Chris Nowinski, Sonia Vallabh, Julio Saez-Rodriguez, and Susan Michaelis for their studies of Castleman Disease, CTE, prion disease, IgAN, and aerotoxic syndrome. Hosted by: Madelyn Leembruggen (she/her) ---------- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email list to get the latest news and highlights: https://mailchi.mp/scishow/email ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Shaji John, Timos Gies, Jon Coffman, Anita, Anne Herrington, Ashley Moquin, yeyette, David Johnston, Cye Stoner, Jp Lynch, Bethany Matthews, Chris Curry, J.V. Rosenbalm, Blood Doctor Kelly, Toyas Dhake, Reed Spilmann, Garrett Galloway, Friso, Lyndsay Brown, Jeremy Mattern, Eric Jensen, Jaap Westera, Matt Curls, Joseph Ruf, Adam Brainard, Steve Gums, Kevin Knupp, Chris Mackey, Kevin Bealer, Piya Shedden, Jason A Saslow, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/scishow.bsky.social #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vQ4z3dfMhqutmAvKWDYQ5TShluDMyQXpCz82jdfZH--TIJJLbWTHQBerWvTfoaInshdT56rADST7kai/pub