COVID-19 Reports, Dead Sea Scroll Fakes, Artificial Glaciers

Politics Is Influencing How Countries Report COVID-19 Cases (0:30) Guest: Eric Jensen, JD, Professor of International Law, Brigham Young University The United States currently leads the world in COVID-19 cases, followed by Spain, Italy, Germany, France and then China. But US intelligence officials say China’s numbers are probably much higher and the country’s just not reporting them. Same thing may also be true about pandemic information coming out of Iran, Russia and other repressive regimes. How can the world respond to a global health crisis like this if we can’t trust each other to tell the truth about how bad it is? Museum of the Bible’s Dead Sea Scrolls Are Fakes (19:08) Guest: Jeffrey Kloha, Chief Curatorial Officer at the Museum of the Bible The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the oldest biblical texts ever found – dating back 2,000 years. Bedouin herders found them in caves in the 1940s and most of them today are in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. But a few priceless fragments are held in private collections and other museums around the world. So it was a big, big deal for the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC to secure a dozen Dead Sea Scroll fragments in the last decade. Now, the Museum has learned its fragments are fakes. Really, really good fakes. Family Farmers Are Disappearing. Does America Really Need Them? (35:39) Guest: Eric Sannerud, Farmer, Entrepreneur, and Business Owner Family farming was at its peak in America 85 years ago and it’s been in steady decline since then. Sure, there’s still a lot of farming happening in the country, it’s just being done by fewer people with much bigger farms. The shift toward giant farming operations is making it harder and harder for small-time farmers who do it because they love it to stay afloat – and when they’re too old to keep it up, their kids and grandkids are often not interested in taking over. Eric Sannerud is an exception. He’s under 30 and growing hops on the Minnesota farm that’s been in his family for four generations. Sannerud is part of a n