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Soldiers of Science

By: Alan Alda, Kate Rope
Narrated by: Alan Alda
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  • You’re In the NIH Now

    You’re In the NIH Now
    Dec 17 2020

    A young mother with two desperately sick children arrives at the NIH in the winter of 1969, where she meets doctors doing a tour of duty at the public health service.
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  • The Beginning of the End of Heart Disease

    The Beginning of the End of Heart Disease
    Dec 17 2020

    Dr. Joe Goldstein arrives at the bedside of young Valerie and Clark. He soon enlists his colleague, Dr. Michael Brown, to try to figure out why these kids have cholesterol levels likely to kill them before they reach adulthood.
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    32 mins
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  • In Search Of…

    In Search Of…
    Dec 17 2020

    The story of the so-called “yellow berets” is largely forgotten until the NIH’s first historian and her young intern unearth some 3x5 index cards and make a major discovery of their own.
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    45 mins
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About the Creator and Performer

Alan Alda, 7-time Emmy Award–winner, played Hawkeye Pierce and wrote many of the episodes on the classic TV series M * A * S * H, and appeared in continuing roles on ER, The West Wing, 30 Rock and The Blacklist. He has starred in, written and directed many films, and was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in The Aviator. His podcast Clear + Vivid has been downloaded 11 million times. His interest in science led to his hosting the award-winning PBS series Scientific American Frontiers for 11 years, on which he interviewed hundreds of scientists. Also on PBS he hosted The Human Spark, winning the 2010 Kavli Science Journalism Award, and Brains on Trial in 2013. On Broadway, he appeared as the physicist Richard Feynman in the play QED. He is the author of the play, Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie. He has won the National Science Board’s Public Service Award, the Scientific American Lifetime Achievement Award and the American Chemical Society Award for Public Service, among others. He is on the Advisory Board of the World Science Festival and is a Visiting Professor at Stony Brook University’s Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science.

About the Creator

Kate Rope is an award-winning freelance journalist, specializing in health and family, whose work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, and CNN. She is author of Strong as a Mother: How to Be Happy, Healthy and (Most Importantly) Sane from Pregnancy to Parenthood and coauthor of The Complete Guide to Medications During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding.

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Highlights from Alan Alda's conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci at the 92Y about Soldiers of Science

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Loved it

this was an inspirational podcast and also very informative and an interesting mix of history blending the Vietnam war, the NIH, and people who benefited from the NIH at that time and continued to benefit from it today, which basically includes all of us. I had a little trouble getting a new episode started. And because of that I had to restart a couple of the podcasts a couple of times to get on the right one. not sure what's up with that but maybe it's just user error.

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loved it

Alda was great and the story is fascinating. If you like to hear about scientific discovery, or how to set up a braintrust that will result in Nobel prizes for science, this is not to be topped

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A fabulous story of some unsung heroes

Regardless of your politics, this is a great listen and well worth your time. I was only marginally aware of what happened at the NIH, but this gave a fantastic, in-depth look at the great doctors who have saved countless loves through their research. Alan Alda does a great with tons of interviews and the narration.

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I found this podcast to be very interesting.

I found this podcast to be very interesting and inspirational.. the voice of Alan Alan made it even better! I can't wait to listen to the others.

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Research strong

Excellent series! I work in research so this was particularly close to my heart. Fascinating!

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Alan Alda performs a compelling story

I love that Alan Alda lends his voice to this compelling history of how the draft led our nations best and brightest doctors to gather at the NIH and produce some of the worlds fastest and most impactful treatments and cures for humanity.

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Timely and compelling

Alan Alda is the right guy to tell this story. And that it pivots about Anthony Fauci makes it timely and compelling as well as historical.

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A Fascinating Set of Recordings

Like others have noted, I would happily listen to Alan Alda read the phone book. That said, this was an amazing listen. I have a friend who works for NIH, and a cousin who worked for Merck, and this gem of a work adds to my knowledge of not only those companies, but to my knowledge of the Viet Nam era.

Thank you to all concerned or putting this presentation together!

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The Kind of Soldiers We Need to Invest In

There is a lot packed into three short and compelling episodes about the importance of public investment in research and science for the public benefit. Incredible that such a program would be the breeding grounds for the leaders and scientists like Anthony Faucci. A real lesson in how creating paths for science to serve the public pays huge dividends for all of us. Thank you Alan and Kate for this timely story!

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Very worth your time

This is the second book in the story of the history great minds coming together by the needs of their time creating what we now know as modern medicine.
It’s in times of crisis, and collegial progress is the expectation, that’s where great leaps are made.

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