Professor Jim Al-Khalili
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535 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 15 Jun
Professor Jim Al-Khalili’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now, you know, it's hard to say that's the reason you're having it here in the U.K., but the disinformation and misinformation is being spread by social media.
And it certainly is part of the problem now that is spreading around the world.
And how do we get back to a place where people
People understand that you can't say things on social media that ultimately will kill people.
You go into a movie theater, you yell fire.
That's not free speech.
You get held accountable for that.
I don't understand how you can do that and mislead people into avoiding vaccines that are lifesaving.
Well, I started out, I mean, I was sent there to actually work on rebuilding the immunization system and started out working in that area.
But we started doing some studies and we ultimately did a national serosurvey.
That's taking blood randomly from around the country to figure out what the infection rate is.
And when we first got the result back, it showed that about 12% of the adults were infected and close to 20% in the capital city.
And this is, of course, the little tip of the iceberg out in the body that's below.
Or in Africa, we talk about the hippo with the hippo's ears up and the body that's below.
But it was a clear public health emergency.
And what was amazing about it is when we presented the results to President Museveni,
We did it with wide confidence intervals, all the challenges that were there and, you know, things we missed.
And he had published in the national newspaper 790,512 Ugandans are HIV infected.
I was horrified from a public health point of view, but he just knew that this was a problem.
He began to work on it and the countries came to his aid and set up the state of the art AIDS control program.
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