Samuel makes a list of the recent waves of panic that have dominated the news cycle since mid-November 2021, talks about difficulties finding reliable data about the situation in Ukraine, and digs into why a recent NY Times article about the possible origins of SARS-CoV-2 horribly missed the mark.
Here's the story about the teenager heading off to fight in the war
Here are multiple versions of the NY Times story about two pre-prints
As promised in the last few minutes of the podcast, Parisian Poutine (for context, I just learned this, in French the name of the dish and Russia's head of state are written exactly the same)
Music: "Isolation" by Audiobinger, from the album Quarantine Beats, Vol. 1
Recent poll (page 70) showed that 42% of Americans believe Russia is a communist country. This is what inspired episode art.
