Coronapod: the COVID scientists facing violent threats
Nature Podcast
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4.5 • 893 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Hundreds of scientists have responded to a survey asking about harassment and abuse during the pandemic. The results paint a picture which is as concerning as it is shocking. In this episode of Coronapod we discuss the kinds of abuse scientists are facing, try to pick apart where it is comes from and ask what can be done about it?
News Feature: ‘I hope you die’: how the COVID pandemic unleashed attacks on scientists
Careers feature: Real-life stories of online harassment — and how scientists got through it
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| 1:02.3 | Welcome to Corona Pod. |
| 1:05.7 | In this show, we're going to bring you nature's take on the latest COVID-19 developments. |
| 1:15.9 | And we'll be speaking to experts around the world about research during the pandemic. |
| 1:24.0 | We're entering a new era now. We've new COVID strategies. There's some new unknowns, and we've got a vaccine. |
| 1:30.0 | Hello and welcome to Corona Pod. |
| 1:34.3 | I'm Noah Baker, and joining me this week is Features Editor Richard Van Norton. |
| 1:35.0 | Richard, how are you? |
| 1:36.1 | Oh, doing well, Noah. |
| 1:41.5 | So this week, we're going to talk about something that I don't think we necessarily expected to be quite as big as it was when you first started working on it. |
| 1:46.4 | And that is about harassment specifically to do with scientists that have spoken out about their work |
| 1:51.3 | during COVID and about their work about COVID. |
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