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  • A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear

    Just how powerful is fear as a motivator in our modern society? We’ll examine the impact of the now completely repudiated late 1990s vaccine and autism scare this hour with Vanity Fair contributing editor Seth Mnookin, whose new book is “The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear” (Simon & Schuster, 2011).

  • The Pope Who Brought Science to the Dark Ages

    How were scientific study and the Church related at the turn of the first millennium? We’ll spend this hour with science writer and medievalist Nancy Marie Brown, author of the new book “The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages” (Basic Books, 2010).