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#341 | The Fault In Our SARS: Scientism, The People's CDC, & The Weight Of Virus Origin Stories w/ Rob Wallace

#341 | The Fault In Our SARS: Scientism, The People's CDC, & The Weight Of Virus Origin Stories w/ Rob Wallace

Patrick Farnsworth
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Evolutionary epidemiologist and author Rob Wallace returns to the podcast to discuss his new collection, The Fault in Our SARS: COVID-19 in the Biden Era, published through Monthly Review. 

This discussion is long, but certainly worth a listen. Entering year four of the pandemic, Rob Wallace has diligently, and extensively, written two books worth of essays on the various facets of the SARS-2 outbreak, many of which are examined in this interview. Rob skewers the Biden administration’s political, institutional, and rhetorical approach to the BSL-3 [Biosafety Level 3] pathogen’s burn through the population, picking apart the scientism, employed by both the political elite and their media lackeys, to rationalize and normalize the mass death and disability of millions. 

#309 | An Abandonment Of An Abandonment: Public Health At The End Of Empire w/ Rob Wallace

#309 | An Abandonment Of An Abandonment: Public Health At The End Of Empire w/ Rob Wallace

Patrick Farnsworth
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Rob Wallace — evolutionary epidemiologist, agroecologist, and author of Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of COVID-19 — joins me to discuss the complex interplay between the increase in infectious pathogens globally, the role of epidemiology within the neoliberal capitalist project, agribusiness and ecological destruction, and Empire at the end of the "cycle of accumulation" in late-stage capitalism. We reference his large body of work, but in particular two of his most recent Patreon pieces, A Spray of Split Seconds and Vic Berger's American Public Health.