Continuing our deep dive on "Quarantine Life from Cholera to Covid-19" with chapter 6: "Desperate remedies and dangerous cures." In this episode, Mara, Amber, and Noelle chat about quackery, how mankind is always in search of a panacea, and the struggles of communicating about scientific discovery.
This show is produced by the iAMResponsible project, a nationwide university outreach team led by Amy Schmidt at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln . Find out more about the project here. Funding for the iAMResponsbile Project was provided by USDA-NIFA Award Nos. 2017-68003-26497, 2018-68003-27467 and 2018-68003-27545. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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