Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about artsy doomsday

cult so you don't have to.

I'm Renata.

And I'm Kate.

And for this episode, we read Inferno by Dan Brown. Joining us to

discuss the latest and least scientifically accurate Robert Langdon Adventure is Sarah, genetics, PhD

candidate and decryer of bad science and entertainment. Welcome, Sarah. Thank you very much.

Thanks for picking this book. I'm really sorry.

I picked it like a year ago and then I put it out of my brain until now and who boy.

You know, I said that sarcastically because that's kind of my habit, but I actually really enjoyed reading this book. I think it really helped that I do not know a lot about science. So I was just like, sounds great. Keep gone.

That's one of the reasons that I generally enjoy Dan Brown novels. Like, I will say up front,

I own not one, but two copies of both DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons because I had to buy the

ones that had all the pictures and I've read every single novel he's ever put out and it's because

I don't know that much about art history that I get to enjoy them. You know, one of the reviews

of this I read said that, like, no matter what

reading Dan Brown novels makes you feel smart, because either you feel like you're learning

something about art history or whatever, or you know more than Dan Brown does, and then you

feel superior for that reason. And so I feel like, like, I took a couple art history classes

in college, and, like, I studied abroad and we went to a bunch of, like, fancy European museums and stuff. So I'm kind of like right in the zone where like sometimes I'm like, I didn't know that or I Google and I'm like, that's not even a thing. Or like sometimes like, oh yeah, I already knew that. I'm super smart. So, and this, uh, this was at about that level for like the Dante and the art stuff.

And then when it got to the science, I was like, I don't know any of this.

Sounds great.

Yeah.

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