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What if Terrorists Could Weaponize Covid?
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Fear of Corporations
There was a sense that you couldn't really trust the institutions you used to believe in anymore. There were other things going on at the time, such as Ford Motor Company putting out an unsafe car and then deciding it was cheaper to deal with legal claims from these exploding fuel tanks than redesign or withdraw the car. It's a truth that in the history of science, mistakes have been made to nor to happen questions to scientists ever exercise for judgment question. We've got a little bit more tape from the council meeting. If you listen to some of the questions that have come in, you can really get a sense that the fears are palpable.
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