Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted) — page 69

DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com Academies? So you can be an inducted member -- DR. BARIC: Sure. MS. SALAZAR: -- but you can also participate in National Academy work. DR. BARIC: It's not uncommon for both the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine to ask experts to participate in developing documents. MS. SALAZAR: So what's the difference between being an inducted member versus being an expert that's asked -- DR. BARIC: Well, an inducted member has to go through the review process by formal members and then voted on by the entire Academy about whether they should be included in that honorary group or not. MS. SALAZAR: And what does that mean? Are there privileges that are -- DR. BARIC: The process is, as described to me when I first became a member, very esoteric and difficult to understand. But each section in the National Academy will open up a -- begin the process of thinking about new members to induct into the National Academy for their section. And members will nominate individuals. Those individuals will be presented to that section, in terms of a five-minute review of what they did, why it's significant, and where science would be should they not have existed. So you're looking for people who made