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Science and economy of selling pesticides
Manage episode 333948152 series 3326525
In the 5th episode of PUAN podcast, co-host Saumya Pandey interviews Historian Elena Conis on how risky pesticides were culturally accepted and what kind of role did science play in its acceptance. Professor Conis explains how scientific research during war and epidemic prioritized some type of scientific questions over others, and how this approach built an economy that was geared towards selling poisonous pesticides and making them socially desirable.
10 episodes
Manage episode 333948152 series 3326525
In the 5th episode of PUAN podcast, co-host Saumya Pandey interviews Historian Elena Conis on how risky pesticides were culturally accepted and what kind of role did science play in its acceptance. Professor Conis explains how scientific research during war and epidemic prioritized some type of scientific questions over others, and how this approach built an economy that was geared towards selling poisonous pesticides and making them socially desirable.
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