Episode 53: Marco Ruggiero Vindicated

August 8th, 2012

Marco Ruggiero, an MD, PhD in Molecular Biology, and Board Certified Radiologist, has been vindicated after anonymous complaints were launched against him at the University of Florence.

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Episode 37: Syphilis Conundrums, Quackbuster Randi and Rethinkers in Korea

May 1st, 2011

In this episode, David presents a slightly different format by playing clips from the current media and commenting on them. He begins the episode with some listener feedback and some news items. Then, in the first clip, Susan Reverby describes how she uncovered a series of U.S. experiments in Guatemala (now deemed unethical), where prostitutes and prison inmates were inoculated with syphilis. David points out the distorted logic and the lack of evidence for sexual transmission of the disease. In the next clip, former magician James Randi contradicts himself as he discusses whether science is imposed by authority or discovered by critical thinking.

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Episode 34: Marco Ruggiero

March 9th, 2011

Marco Ruggiero is board-certified medical doctor and clinical radiologist with a PhD in molecular biology, currently full professor of molecular biology and genetics at the University of Firenze, Italy where he teaches in the Faculties of Medicine, Sciences (chemistry, biology and biotechnology) and Engineering. By coincidence he shared an office with Dr. Peter Duesberg in the 1980s which is where he first encountered his heretical ideas about cancer viruses, HIV, AIDS and AZT. He discusses his background and HIV/AIDS science with David and Terry for an hour.

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