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#107 Matt Ridley: Infinite Innovation
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
The Insecticide Treatment Mosquito Net
Malaria was going up until two thousand and three it's now going down as a cause of mortality in the world, going down pretty steeply. And it's entirely due to, not entirely, but it's nearly all due to this technology. It's more effective than antimalarial drugs and more effective than draining swamps or spraying mosquitoes. I traced the story back to a typewritten document from 19 83 in bacqino fasso describing a very well designed experiment that a frenchman named darriet and his colleagues did. Nobody's heard of darriot. He'd never got the nobell prize. Should have done. In my view, don't think he ever
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