This season i'm taking a long look at experts. Why is the US so terrifically bad at figuring out who they are and taking their advice? The final episode of against the rules will focus on the obscure virus club. A group of scientists became obsessed with an obscure family of viruses. They all knew each other, but that didn't stop them getting rejected from journals.
Throughout the 1960s, a biologist named Howard Temin became convinced that something wasn’t right in science’s understanding of viruses. His colleagues dismissed him as a heretic. He turned out to be right — and you're alive today as a result. Season Four ends with a bedtime story about how we should be freed by our doubts, not imprisoned by them.
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