Join our podcast host and former NYT Science Times editor David Corcoran as he discusses the criminalization of HIV with science writer Jessica Wapner, author of Undark’s recent feature on the topic. Also: Undark’s Tracker columnist, Paul Raeburn, talks sexual harassment in science (and the media’s coverage of it), and Scienceline reporter Sandy Ong examines current research into near death experiences, or NDEs.
Undark Podcast #6: The Crime of HIV Laws
Top: We’ve learned a lot about the HIV virus, shown here, in yellow, attacking a human T cell. But state laws criminalizing its spread have not kept pace with the science. Visual: National Institutes of Health