#117 – Don’t Cry Wolfe with Kavin Senapathy

The League of Nerds

Posted on February 21, 2016 in Podcast, The League of Nerds // 4 Comments

The Nerds are joined this week by the wonderful Kavin Senapathy, Forbes contributor, Author of Fearbade, Grounded parents, March against myths and finally Shill for tinyARgo. What are we talking about? Well the quite frankly bizarre beliefs of David Avocado Wolfe.

For more on the #DontCryWolfe campaign look here

You can find Kavin here

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My name is Myles Power, and I run the educational YouTube channel, powerm1985. I spend what little free time I have sharing my love of SCIENCE! through home experiments, visiting sites of scientific interest, and angrily ranting at pseudoscience proponents. I am also one of the founding members of the podcast 'The League of Nerds' - which I co-host with James from 'The History of Infection'.

4 Comments on #117 – Don’t Cry Wolfe with Kavin Senapathy

Ribbon Zingera // February 21, 2016 at 6:24 pm // Reply

Fearbade!
also i love you and you’re awesome.

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kencamargo // February 22, 2016 at 9:18 pm // Reply

Hi folks, just a minor observation, Wolfe is indeed an idiot and mangled the whole story, but I believe the figure being described around the 3’50” mark relates to Ignaz Semmelweiss, who indeed stated that simple hygiene measures could bring down the number of cases (and deaths) from “post partum fever”, was shunned by his colleagues and did end his days in a mental institution. But the latter had nothing to do with the former, and he didn’t help much his own cause, being very contentious. See http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/13/3/233.full

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kencamargo // February 22, 2016 at 9:27 pm // Reply

I should have listened to the whole thing before commenting. :) Semmelweiss was Hungarian, by the way. At the time, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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Paul // February 23, 2016 at 2:33 am // Reply

keep up the good work guys !!!!!

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