Carl Zimmer

It was in the 1930s.

So she brings like a whole new sophistication of physics to studying these things.

She finds that, especially with a sneeze,

it sort of creates a new kind of physics.

So you actually have a cloud that just shoots forward and it even carries the bigger droplets with it.

And it doesn't just go three feet and drop it.

In her studies, looking at her video, it could go 10 feet, 20 feet.

It could just keep going, going.

It just keeps on going.

And so in 2018, she gets up at one of these TEDMED talks and gives this very impressive talk with lots of pictures.

And I would say the world didn't really listen.

I think there's a whole world of psychological research to be done on why people accept or don't accept scientific research.

And I'm not just talking about the public.

This is a question about how science itself works.

Because there were lots of scientists who looked at the claims that Lindsay Maher and others made about the

Sky Valley Corral outbreak and said, I don't know.

I'm not convinced.

You know, you didn't culture viable virus from the air.

How do you really know?

You know, really, I'm not making I'm not.