Baseless Conspiracies Ep. 186: Plum Island, Operation Paperclip and the Lyme Disease Confession
Jon Herold and Zak Paine open Episode 186 on Memorial Day with Jon describing how he found a lone star tick crawling up his arm the night before, making the follow-up to last week's tick episode feel extremely personal.
The full hour is dedicated to tracing the documented history of US government tick and insect bioweapons programs. Jon walks through Nazi scientist Dr. Eric Traub, brought to America under Operation Paperclip in 1945, who set up the Plum Island research facility nine miles from Lyme, Connecticut. USDA National Archives files bearing Traub's name and labeled "tick research"…
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