#1523: Dr. Lydia Pyne’s “Genuine Fakes – How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff”

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Nov 29 2019 | 00:30:00

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Show Notes

Whenever we hear the word fake these days, the mental reflex is to think the word news. But fakes have been a part of society, well pretty much forever. It’s the history of fakes that we’re talking about today with Dr. Lydia Pyne, a writer and historian of science, and currently a visiting researcher at the […]

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