Episode 828 • • 1:49:12 - 1:54:05
828: White, Male & Yale
Zika Virus Funding and "Flat World" Rhetoric
Senator Harry Reid is heard campaigning for $1.9 billion in emergency Zika virus funding, warning that mosquitoes will soon "leave town" for the summer. Dr. David Agus appears on CBS to recommend wearing mosquito nets in public. Agus repeatedly uses the phrase "the world is flat" to describe viral transmission, which the hosts mock as a nonsensical buzzword.