This Week in Virology

TWiV 1026: Debunking RFK Jr.’s vaccine funk with Dan Wilson


Listen Later

Dan Wilson returns to TWiV to debunk vaccine misinformation by RFK Jr. during his recent appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience.

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierRich ConditKathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker

Guest: Dan Wilson

Subscribe (free): Apple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsRSSemail

Become a patron of TWiV!

Links for this episode
  • MicrobeTV Discord Server
  • Joe Rogan’s worst misinformation yet, with RFK Jr. (YouTube)
  • Every first vaccine has been tested in placebo-controlled trials before going to market.
    • Polio
    • Measles
    • HPV
    • COVID-19
    • HepB
    • Haemophilus influenzae B
    • Pertussis
    • Diphtheria
    • Tetanus
    • Pneumococcal
    • Mumps
    • Meningococcal
    • Chickenpox
    • HepA
  • KiGGS Study results on atopic diseases after vaccination (Vaccine)
  • Vaccine history by year (CHOP)
  • Financing vaccines in the 21st Century (Nat Acad Press)
  • DALY rates from non-communicable diseases (Our World in Data)
  • Science loses one to creationism (WaPo)
  • Children’s Health Defense (Wikipedia)
  • COVID-19 vaccines saved 3 million US lives (CIDRAP)
  • Beyond the Noise with Paul Offit (YouTube)
  • Letters read on TWiV 1026
  • Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Weekly Picks

Dickson – Jazz G.O.A.T.S – Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald Brianne – Defining the Anthropocene? Kathy – How to use your thermostat on A/C Rich – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Vincent – Step Aside, Joe Biden

Listener Picks

Kim – Virus found in a boreal lake links ssDNA and dsDNA viruses and Structure of ssDNA bacteriophage ΦCjT23 provides insight into early virus evolution

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected]

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

This Week in VirologyBy Vincent Racaniello

  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8

4.8

2,032 ratings


More shows like This Week in Virology

View all
Radiolab by WNYC Studios

Radiolab

44,013 Listeners

Fresh Air by NPR

Fresh Air

38,470 Listeners

The New Yorker Radio Hour by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

The New Yorker Radio Hour

6,697 Listeners

Hidden Brain by Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

Hidden Brain

43,540 Listeners

On the Media by WNYC Studios

On the Media

9,175 Listeners

The Political Scene | The New Yorker by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

4,006 Listeners

MicrobeWorld Video by American Society for Microbiology

MicrobeWorld Video

29 Listeners

This Week in Parasitism by Vincent Racaniello

This Week in Parasitism

455 Listeners

Meet the Microbiologist by Ashley Hagen, M.S.

Meet the Microbiologist

37 Listeners

This Week in Microbiology by Vincent Racaniello

This Week in Microbiology

517 Listeners

Microbios by Brendaliz Santiago-Narvaez

Microbios

12 Listeners

BacterioFiles by Jesse Noar

BacterioFiles

20 Listeners

MicrobeWorld Video (audio only) by American Society for Microbiology

MicrobeWorld Video (audio only)

4 Listeners

Editors in Conversation by American Society for Microbiology

Editors in Conversation

25 Listeners

Revisionist History: The Alabama Murders by Pushkin Industries

Revisionist History: The Alabama Murders

59,172 Listeners

Science Friday by Science Friday and WNYC Studios

Science Friday

6,354 Listeners

This Week in Virology by Vincent Racaniello

This Week in Virology

232 Listeners

Immune by Vincent Racaniello

Immune

275 Listeners

Public Health On Call by The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Public Health On Call

625 Listeners

The Ezra Klein Show by New York Times Opinion

The Ezra Klein Show

16,106 Listeners

MicrobeWorld Video HD by American Society for Microbiology

MicrobeWorld Video HD

4 Listeners

Infectious Disease Puscast by Vincent Racaniello

Infectious Disease Puscast

85 Listeners