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  • Health & Science
    Dr. Billionaire, Meet Dr. Salk
    May 11, 2016
    | Sam Pizzigati
    History shows us that brilliant doctors don't need the incentive of fabulous riches in order to achieve medical breakthroughs.
  • History
    Why Do So Many Millennials Misunderstand Vaccination?
    February 12, 2015
    | Katie Rose Quandt
    The current “not my child” anti-vax mindset of some parents couldn’t be further from the national effort of coming together to fight diseases in the mid-20th century.
  • Saving a Baseball Park, Polio's Deadly Conquest, and Journalistic Independence
    November 28, 2003 | NOW
    Bill talks to former Major League Baseball pitcher and author Jim Bouton, media critic John Leonard and views the work of photographer Sebastiao Salgado.
  • Justice
    Judgement Call: The Nomination of Janice Rogers Brown; The Economist's Bill Emmott; Faith and the Law
    October 31, 2003 | NOW
    The bitter battle over President Bush's nominee for the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, a conversation with the man at the helm of The Economist, and the political effects of piety in government.
  • Health & Science
    Jonas Salk on Searching for the Next Medical Miracle
    February 18, 1990
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    The doctor who invented the polio vaccine believed that medical solutions are not invented, but rather revealed from nature.


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