Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Skeptics in the Pub Online Podcast
Episode: RETRO: How science denialism is fuelling the covid-19 crisis in Brazil – Dr -Natália Pasternak
Description: Brazil has surpassed the UK in the number of confirmed cases and deaths of Covid19. Still, the federal government refuses to acknowledge reality and relies on magical thinking and denialism, promoting miracle cures, withholding information, spreading lies and inciting riots.
Join Natalia Pasternak for a look at the Brazilian response to the pandemic, and what happens when a government embraces pseudoscience in the face of an international health crisis.
Natalia Pasternak is a biologist, with a PhD and post-doctorate in Microbiology, in the field of Molecular Genetics of Bacteria at the University of São P...