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Peter Doherty's Nobel, Omicron and fighting misinformation

Dec 08, 202135 minEp 5Transcript available on Metacast
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Dr Shalin Naik is joined by Nobel Prize winning Professor Peter Doherty, Luke McGregor and Dave Thornton.

What did Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty win his Nobel Prize for?
Were there any perks to winning it?
How did his discovery change the study of the immune system?
What do we know about Omicron?
Will our current vaccines work against it?
Will it jump the immune barrier?
What happens when we run out of Greek letters?
What does Dan Murphy's have to do with Peter's Twitter followers?
Why does Peter try to correct the record on vaccine misinformation?
Is he in the pocket of Pfizer, or a puppet of an authoritarian system?
Why so such vaccines come from big companies like Pfizer and Astra Zeneca?
Can one be anti-authoritarian and pro-vaccine?

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