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Jun 2024
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World's Wildest Travel Blog: Dr. Fauci, ...

Spencer Klavan
About this episode

Will we ever get to stop hearing about Dr. Fauci? Does anyone even remember COVID anymore? These are the sorts of profound questions that define our times. I will not be answering them. Instead, I want to tell you a Very Young Heretics story about how the pagan gods found their way into modern science--and why they might be finding their way back out again in the age of "The Science" (TM). Plus: is listening to audiobooks the same as reading? No, but you should still do it anyway.

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I maked this: Paradise Lost, the audiobook: https://rejoiceevermore.substack.com/p/paradise-lost

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