Jeremy Farrar
Jeremy Farrar is the Director of Wellcome, a global charitable foundation which supports science to solve urgent health challenges. As a member of the SAGE emergency committee, Farrar was a key figure in both the UK and the World Health Organization at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Books by Jeremy Farrar
Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story
by Jeremy Farrar & with Anjana Ahuja
“The politics of science is one of those topics that tends to be dealt with in clichés, often self-serving clichés: truth versus lies, reason versus magic, etc. But this is an exceptional account of the politics of science which deals with the messy realities of scientific diplomacy and scientific politics. It’s a very rare, frank account by a scientist about the realities of science-state relations, of science-policy relations.
It’s concerned with Covid, with the World Health Organization, with China, and above all British politics and Covid. One of the things it exposes in relation to the UK is the systemic mediocrity of British government, with very, very rare exceptions which are celebrated. This mediocrity led, according to this book, to tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths. It is a serious intervention in our understanding of the politics of Covid, as well the epidemiology, the science, the vaccines and so on.”
Interviews where books by Jeremy Farrar were recommended
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The Greywacke: How a Priest, a Soldier and a School Teacher Uncovered 300 Million Years of History
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Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender
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Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story
by Jeremy Farrar & with Anjana Ahuja -
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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters
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Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life
by Rose Anne Kenny -
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Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial
by Peter Stott
The Best Popular Science Books of 2022: The Royal Society Book Prize, recommended by Maria Fitzgerald
The Best Popular Science Books of 2022: The Royal Society Book Prize, recommended by Maria Fitzgerald
The renowned UCL neuroscientist Professor Maria Fitzgerald, chair of the 2022 Royal Society Book Prize, talks us through the judges’ selection of the best popular science books of the year—including a whistle-stop tour of the history of the Earth, a self-help book offering evidence-based advice on how to live a longer life, and a primatologist’s study of gender among apes.
