What connects ancient Roman swamp management to the AIDS crisis to kids getting avoidably sick in schools today?

It’s the story of the ignored science of airborne disease spread. It’s the biggest screw-up in public health history, and it’s not just ongoing– it affects all of us.

Public health institutions are failing us for the same reason that everything else is broken: our society values profit over human welfare, and that has everything to do with who gets to decide what counts as 'good science’.

Think 90s kids’ educational TV, but a lot stranger than Bill Nye ever got. Add a dose of 2020s tumult, and you’ve got my feature-length exploration of the most important science story you’ve never heard.