Friedman

"This is the only segment of our economy where we have the majority of products being knowingly dangerous, and we leave it up to the consumer," says Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, a cardiologist who is the dean of the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

Born in New York to poor Jewish parents, Friedman displayed brilliance in mathematics at a young age, winning a scholarship to Rutgers University in neighboring New Jersey.

Friedman, another NRx entrepreneur-cum-philosopher backed by Thiel's dollars, leads the Seasteading Institute, an organization busy designing permanent (almost Lovecraftian) cities at seas—seasteads—prefigurative gov-corps outside the territory claimed by democratic governments.