345 - A Pox on Fools - Thomas Levenson

You Are Not So Smart by You Are Not So Smart

Aug 3, 202601:06:29Science & Medicine

MIT professor Thomas Levenson, the author of the book A Pox on Fools, takes us through the same repeating patterns throughout history which have led to antivaxxers and vaccine hesitancy since the very first vaccines.

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