Vaccines – Let’s Make America Smart Again

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🗓️ 8 March 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Continuing our Let’s Make America Smart Again series, Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-host Felicia Madison, and Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Laurie Garrett eradicate unfounded disinformation and dish out smart, sensible knowledge and understanding about vaccines. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Photo: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Laurie Garrett, and Felicia Madison. Credit: StarTalk©.

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0:00.0	From the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and beaming out across all of space and time.
0:09.0	This is Star Talk. We're science and pop culture.
0:17.0	This is Star Talk. I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:28.0	And today we have a cosmic queries edition from our portfolio of Let's Make America Smart again.
0:37.0	Love those.
0:39.0	Why is that America?
0:40.0	The topic today, vaccines.
0:43.0	And we have one of the world's most knowledgeable people on the intersection of vaccines and the public's reaction to it.
0:52.0	Laurie Garrett, Laurie, welcome to Star Talk.
0:54.0	Thank you.
0:55.0	Thanks for, this is not your first rodeo.
0:57.0	Nope.
0:58.0	You're your third time with us.
0:59.0	Yes.
1:00.0	I had you for one.
1:01.0	Bill and I had you for another.
1:02.0	Yeah.
1:03.0	The first time I think we talked about the zombie apocalypse.
1:08.0	And Bill and I you talked about Ebola.
1:11.0	Right.
1:12.0	So this time we're talking about vaccines. So thanks for coming back.
1:14.0	You bet.
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