what if everything we thought we knew about disease spread is wrong?
What connects ancient Roman swamp management to the AIDS crisis to kids getting avoidably sick in schools today?
It’s the story of the ignored science of airborne disease spread. It’s the biggest screw-up in public health history, and it’s not just ongoing– it affects all of us!
Public health institutions are failing us for the same reason that everything else is broken: our society values profit over human welfare, and that has everything to do with who gets to decide what counts as 'good science’.
Think 90s edutainment, but a lot stranger than Bill Nye ever got, add a dose of 2020s tumult, and you’ve got my feature-length deep-dive into the most important science story you’ve never heard!
Join me and together we’ll discover what’s gone so wrong so we can finally do something about it!
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0:00 Intro: Airborne 101
06:08 Chapter 1 - The Semmelweis Reflex
11:03 Chapter 2 - What is Miasma?
14:42 Chapter 3 - Early 20th Century: Germ Theory Takes the Stage
20:48 Chapter 4 - 1940s: Pioneers of Modern Airborne Science
29:39 Chapter 5 - 1950s: The CDC Pushes Back
33:29 Chapter 6 - The 60s TB Discovery That Stunned The Haters
37:13 Chapter 7 - The 70s Breakthrough That Should Have Changed Everything
40:21 Chapter 8 - 80s Misinformation Spiral: The Five Micron Error
47:07 Chapter 9 - 2003: SARS Changes Everything (For Some)
1:04:29 Chapter 10 - No One Listens to 21st Century Pioneers
1:14:36 Chapter 11 - COVID: A New Viral Threat Proves Them Right
1:28:08 Chapter 12 - Public Health Can and Should Do Better