Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse
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In this nearly 4-hour SPECIAL EPISODE , Rob Reid delivers a 100-minute monologue (broken up into 4 segments, and interleaved with discussions with Sam) about the looming danger of a man-made pandemic , caused by an artificially-modified pathogen. The risk of this occurring is far higher and nearer-term than almost anyone realizes.
Rob explains the science and motivations that could produce such a catastrophe and explores the steps that society must start taking today to prevent it . These measures are concrete, affordable, and scientifically fascinating—and almost all of them are applicable to future, natural pandemics as well . So if we take most of them, the odds of a future Covid-like outbreak would plummet—a priceless collateral benefit.
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In this nearly 4-hour SPECIAL EPISODE , Rob Reid delivers a 100-minute monologue (broken up into 4 segments, and interleaved with discussions with Sam) about the looming danger of a man-made pandemic , caused by an artificially-modified pathogen. The risk of this occurring is far higher and nearer-term than almost anyone realizes.
Rob explains the science and motivations that could produce such a catastrophe and explores the steps that society must start taking today to prevent it . These measures are concrete, affordable, and scientifically fascinating—and almost all of them are applicable to future, natural pandemics as well . So if we take most of them, the odds of a future Covid-like outbreak would plummet—a priceless collateral benefit.
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