WS MoreOrLess: Neknomination Outbreak
More or Less
BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2014
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The rise and fall of an online epidemic: How studying the spread of infectious diseases suggests the global drinking craze Neknomination will fizzle out. Drinkers post videos of their exploits and nominate others to do the same – but eventually the fad will run out of steam says epidemiologist Adam Kucharski from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Plus, while politicians debate how much to tax the rich in France and the UK– we look at which countries levy the highest and the lowest rates of income tax for both the wealthy and average worker. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
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| 0:59.0 | Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service. I'm Charlotte McDonald. |
| 1:05.0 | How much to tax the rich is a hot political issue right now as it was in the 1960s when the Beatles |
| 1:14.6 | fabulously rich themselves railed against high rates in Britain. |
| 1:18.6 | Now this week on more or less we'll compare tax rates around the world. But first. |
| 1:24.0 | It's the online game where you neck a drink, nominate another person to do the same and |
| 1:29.3 | film it. |
| 1:30.3 | Neck nomination. Now this is an online drinking game which is sweeping across the world on |
| 1:35.1 | social media. It's a disturbing trend which has led to a number of deaths. Thousands of people |
| 1:41.2 | seem to be taking part in it. |
| 1:43.0 | The idea is that someone makes a video of themselves drinking, |
| 1:46.0 | usually downing a pint of beer. |
| 1:49.0 | Adam Kacharski is a research fellow of infectious diseases |
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