Simon Schama
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The past is never dead. It's not even past (Faulkner) . Historian, writer, art critic, cook, BBC presenter but not necessarily in that order
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The fiercely eloquent Simon Schama on the history of epidemics, and human response: '(W)e're capable of incomparable ingenuity of the kind that can produce vaccines in record time, but...'
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so glad to have talked with Scott Simon for Weekend edition about my book on vaccine history - at a time when Covid is back and with it vaccine resistance - and its dangerous politics
Got questions for Simon Schama about pandemics through history? Send them to Washington Post Live. Then join us on Tuesday! washingtonpost.com/washington-pos…
Conspiracy theories around vaccines are not new. But as Simon Schama found in his new book, Foreign Bodies, scientists once hoped that as scientific knowledge became more widespread, conspiracy theories would be discarded – yet the reality turned out to be quite different.