Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The complete TWiV team reads email from listeners about anti-vaccine activists, a career in microbiology, placentas, a virology textbook, the HeLa cell genome, norovirus, and much more.

Links for this episode:

• Anthropic principle
• 1999 vaccine article by Alan Dove (Nature)
• Image credit: Jason Roberts
• Letters read on TWiV 251

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