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Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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How Did You Come to Be Concerned About Pandemics?

Sally Kohn: How did you come to be worried about this particular topic of the catastrophic risk posed by an intentionally engineered pandemic? Kohn: The earliest thread of that actually goes all the way back to when you and i overlapped briefly is stamford undergrads. And one person that i spent a lot of time with back then was a guy named farrag poda, who was egypt's most prominent secularist at the time. She says he was assassinated shortly after his year in cairo wrapped up; it kicked off a ghastly wave of terrorism there.Kohn: I've now onother over 50 sos, quite a few with leading lights

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