Carl Zimmer
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And she said, look, I mean, I teach this like every year.
I just go to the blackboard and derive a formula to show that particles much bigger than this can stay airborne.
So there's something really wrong here.
And she started spending more and more time studying airborne disease.
And she kept seeing the wells as being cited.
And she was like, who are these?
She didn't know who they were.
She had to dig back because finding his book is not easy.
I will tell you that.
You can't buy it on Amazon.
It's a total flop.
Eventually, she started reading his papers and getting deeper in it.
She was like, huh.
He was pretty smart.
He didn't say any of the things that people today are claiming he said.
There's a big disconnect here.
And that led her into joining a very small group of people who really were taking the idea of airborne infection seriously in the early 2000s.
That's right.