Going Viral - The Podcast

Mark debunks the latest #batshitcrazy conspiracy theories about Covid-19 with David Robert Grimes and Mike Jay.

Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum

With

David Robert Grimes @drg1985 cancer researcher and vocal opponent of conspiracy theorists.

His new book ‘The Irrational Ape’ on why we get everything from medicine to politics wrong and how we can stop ourselves falling victim to fools, liars and charlatans, will be out on Sept 5th 2020.

Mike Jay @MikeJayNet author and cultural historian, Mike writes widely on the history of science and medicine.

https://mikejay.net/books/the-influencing-machine/

https://mikejay.net/darkness-over-all/

https://mikejay.net/stranger-fiction/

Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg

Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com

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Mark checks our emotional health with Thomas Dixon, Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London and Nancy Lublin, the founder & CEO of CrisisTextLine.org

Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum

With

@ProfThomasDixon Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London where he runs the Wellcome Trust funded 'Living With Feeling' project. His most recent book is Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears. You can find out more about his team's 'Developing Emotions' schools project and how to download the teaching materials at the History of Emotions blog. 

Thomas's BBC Radio 4 series 'Five Hundred Years of Friendship' is available on BBC Sounds, and you can hear his podcast series about anger on SoundCloud or Apple Podcasts.

Nancy Lublin, Founder & CEO, of Crisis Text Line, Free 24/7 support at your fingertips, CrisisTextLine.org, @CrisisTextLine 

Guest Presenter: Olivia Honigsbaum 

Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg

Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com

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Mark Honigsbaum talks facts, figures and projections about Covid-19 to Andrew Noymer, medical demographer and professor of public health at University of California Irvine.

Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum

With @AndrewNoymer 

Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg

Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com

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Going Viral brings you a special episode about the role of the media in the growth of vaccine hesitancy, recorded live at City University of London on 26th June 2019. @CityUniLondon.

In the last 18 months, Europe and the US have seen an upsurge in measles cases seemingly fuelled by growing distrust of the Measles Mumps and Rubella vaccine.

Many media commentators blame the measles outbreaks on the activities of anti-vaxxers – in particular, misleading information about MMR and other vaccines that circulate on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. 

But are anti-vaxxers really to blame for the upsurge in measles cases? Or is it all a bit of a moral panic manufactured by the press? And what about the rare cases where a vaccine is associated with an adverse event?  How should journalists report genuine concerns about the safety and efficacy of vaccines without giving a platform to anti-vaxxers?

Presented by Mark Honigsbaum, @honigsbaum

Guest speakers:

Fiona Fox, the Chief Executive of the Science Media Centre in London, @SMC_London. 

Dr. David Robert Grimes, Trinity College, Dublin, @drg1985.

Jo Yarwood, Immunisation Manager at Public Health England, @PHE_uk.

Emilie Karafillakis, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s Vaccine Confidence Project, @EKarafillakis. 

Produced by Melissa FitzGerald, @Melissafitzg

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The disease detectives talk pandemics, past and present, with Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust. How prepared are we for the next outbreak?

Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley

With:

Dr. Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust. www.wellcome.ac.uk / @JeremyFarrar

View the animation ‘How Pandemics Spread’ here: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-pandemics-spread

The series is produced by Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg

Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com

Reading by Will Huggins https://voiceovers.mandy.com/uk/voice-artist/profile/will-huggins-1

‘Going Viral’ is supported by Wellcome www.wellcome.ac.uk / @wellcometrust

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The disease detectives investigate the persistent fear that another pandemic virus will emerge again to threaten humanity, in the way that the Spanish Flu did 100 years ago.

Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley

With:

Dr. Jeffery K. Taubenberger, Chief, Viral Pathogenesis and Evolution Section, Deputy Chief, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, USA. www.irp.nih.gov/pi/jeffery-taubenberger  

Ron Fouchier, Professor in Molecular Virology, Viroscience department, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands. https://www.erasmusmc.nl/viroscience/research/fields-expertise/molecular-virology/

Dr. Eileen Choffnes, former Director of the National Academy of Medicine's Forum on Microbial Threats, USA.

Michael Osterholm, Regent Professor and Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota. www.cidrap.umn.edu

The series is produced by Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg

Cover art by Patrick Blower. www.blowercartoons.com

‘Going Viral’ is supported by Wellcome. www.wellcome.ac.uk / @wellcometrust

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The disease detectives investigate Britain’s only memorial to the Spanish flu pandemic, which leads them to the diary of flu fighter Dr. Basil Hood - offering a rare insight into the experiences of the brave medics who served on the frontline of the 1918 influenza pandemic.

Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley

With:

Professor John Oxford, Blizzard Institute, Queen Mary College, London. Scientific Director, Oxford Media Medicine www.oxfordmediamedicine.co

You can visit the ‘Influenza Pandemic Window – Heroes and Heroines of 1918-19’ in the medical library of the Royal London Hospital. https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/thehistorian/2017/10/06/through-a-glass-brightly-whitechapels-pandemic-window/

Dr. Basil Hood’s diary can be viewed by appointment at the Wellcome Collection. www.wellcomecollection.org

‘Spanish Flu: Nursing During History’s Deadliest Pandemic’ is running from 21st September 2018 – 16th June 2019 at The Florence Nightingale Museum, London www.florence-nightingale.co.uk

The series is produced by Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg

Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com

Dr. Basil Hood voiced by Will Huggins https://voiceovers.mandy.com/uk/voice-artist/profile/will-huggins-1

‘Going Viral’ is supported by Wellcome www.wellcome.ac.uk / @wellcometrust

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The disease detectives investigate the global ramifications of the Spanish flu pandemic and discover places far removed from the European theatre of war, where the Spanish flu has left its trace.

Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley

With:

Shobana Jeyasingh, Choreographer. @SJeyasinghDance

‘Contagion’ is touring in 2018, for more information go to: www.shobanajeyasingh.co.uk

Laura Spinney, Novelist, science journalist and author of ‘Pale Rider, The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World’. www.lauraspinney.com / @lfspinney    

Professor John Oxford, Blizzard Institute, Queen Mary College, London. Scientific Director, Oxford Media Medicine www.oxfordmediamedicine.co

Dr. Anthea Hyslop, retired academic historian, Australian National University

Dr. Peter Hobbins, Department of History, The University of Sydney. www.sydney.edu.au/arts/history/staff/profiles/peter.hobbins.php, @history2wheeler

The series is produced by Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg 

Cover art by Patrick Blower. www.blowercartoons.com

Readings by: Will Huggins https://voiceovers.mandy.com/uk/voice-artist/profile/will-huggins-1; Sian Kelly and Susheel Kumar www.susheelkumar.net

‘Going Viral’ is supported by Wellcome www.wellcome.ac.uk / @wellcometrust

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The disease detectives investigate the theory that the Spanish flu originated in America and another theory that it came from China: in both cases the flu was first identified as ‘plague’. 

Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley

With:

Dr. David Morens, CAPT, United States Public Health Service, Senior Advisor to the Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, USA. www.demystifyingmedicine.od.nih.gov/dm17/m05d16/Biosketch-Morens-David.pdf 

John Barry, Author of ‘The Great Influenza: the story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History’. www.johnmbarry.com

Professor John Oxford, Blizzard Institute, Queen Mary College, London. Scientific Director, Oxford Media Medicine www.oxfordmediamedicine.co

Professor Wendy Barclay, Action Medical Research Chair in Virology, Imperial College London. www.imperial.ac.uk/people/w.barclay/honours-and-memberships.html

Dr. Michael Worobey, Louise Foucar Marshall Science Research Professor, Department Head Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona. www.eeb.arizona.edu/people/dr-michael-worobey-department-head

Glyn Prysor, Chief Historian at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. @glynprysor

Find out more about Noyelles-sur-Mer cemetery: www.cwgc.org/find/find-cemeteries-and-memorials/68500/noyelles-sur-mer-chinese-cemetery

Mark Humphries, Associate Professor; Dunkley Chair in War and the Canadian Experience; Director, Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies (LCMSDS), Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada. www.wlu.ca/academics/faculties/faculty-of-arts/faculty-profiles/mark-humphries/index.html

The series is produced by Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg

Cover art by Patrick Blower. www.blowercartoons.com

Readings by: Will Huggins https://voiceovers.mandy.com/uk/voice-artist/profile/will-huggins-1

‘Going Viral’ is supported by Wellcome www.wellcome.ac.uk / @wellcometrust

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The disease detectives investigate the theory that the Spanish flu originated in Etaples, Northern France in 1916. 

Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley

With:

Professor John Oxford, Blizzard Institute, Queen Mary College, London. Scientific Director, Oxford Media Medicine www.oxfordmediamedicine.co

Glyn Prysor, Chief Historian at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. @glynprysor

Find out more about Etaples Military Cemetery: www.cwgc.org/find/find-cemeteries-and-memorials/56500/etaples-military-cemetery

Dr. Michael Worobey, Louise Foucar Marshall Science Research Professor, Department Head Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona. www.eeb.arizona.edu/people/dr-michael-worobey-department-head

The series is produced by Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg

Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com

Readings by: Jessie Brooks www.jessiebrooks.co.uk and Will Huggins https://voiceovers.mandy.com/uk/voice-artist/profile/will-huggins-1

‘Going Viral’ is supported by Wellcome www.wellcome.ac.uk / @wellcometrust

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