#97: Of Viruses And Vaccines – Peter Doherty
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Peter Doherty is an immunologist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Show notes
Selected links
- Follow Peter: Website | Twitter
- ‘I’m 79, I won the Nobel Prize and I don’t give a s—‘, AFR profile of Peter Doherty
- Pandemics: What Everyone Needs To Know, by Peter Doherty
- The (in)famous Imperial College paper
Topics discussed
- Has Peter always not given a shit? 7:32
- Peter’s odd high school experience. 9:00
- How the media report on science. 12:30
- What is the difference between a virus and a bacterium? 15:08
- How does a new coronavirus come into existence? 17:47
- What is Peter’s area of expertise and what does he know about pandemics? 22:57
- What has the coronavirus pandemic taught us about the usefulness of epidemiological models? 25:20
- The politicization of lockdowns. 35:57
- The origins of America and Australia’s cultural differences. 47:33
- Social media and political polarisation. 57:05
- In weathering the pandemic relatively well, was Australia lucky or were the epidemiological models too pessimistic? 59:56
- Can we just lockdown the vulnerable segment of the population, rather than the whole population? 1:03:52
- Is Peter optimistic about keeping a lid on the virus until a vaccine arrives? 1:08:25
- What do governments need to learn from the pandemic to be better prepared for the next one? 1:16:00