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When Scientific Brilliance Isn’t Enough

The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

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The Importance of Ethics in Science

Sam King: William Halford was a good person on many levels, but even good people need ethics. The Ice-Pix Surgeon's desire to test the vaccine overrode everything else in his life. He should have simply done all the work he could do in the time that he had left and trained others to take over after he died.

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