224 - Alice Dreger (Galileo's Middle Finger)

Published: Nov. 19, 2018, 5 a.m.

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Original release May 4, 2015.

Encore release November 19, 2018.

Encore release August 12, 2017.

We interview Dr. Alice Dreger,\\xa0author of\\xa0Galileo\\u2019s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science, in which\\xa0she discusses recent controversies involving bioethics researchers and activists\\u2014herself included.\\xa0Dr. Dreger is\\xa0the professor of Clinical Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University in Chicago. She found herself at the center of another controversy recently when she\\xa0live-tweeted\\xa0her son\'s abstinence-heavy public school sex-ed class.

Galileo\'s Middle Finger\\xa0is available in\\xa0hardcover, for\\xa0Kindle\\xa0and as an\\xa0audiobook. For more about Alice Dreger visit\\xa0AliceDreger.com.

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