Best of: Dr Karl says OnlyFans can save the planet
The Briefing3 Jan 2025

Best of: Dr Karl says OnlyFans can save the planet

In this best of episode of the Weekend Briefing Antoinette Lattouf is joined by Dr Karl.

Dr Karl is Australia’s favourite science communicator, with a passion for colourful shirts with the energy of an exclamation mark!

He’s a former taxi driver, was a serial university student – studying for 16 years – and is now a much-loved medical personality on radio and TV who has just written a memoir – The Periodic Tale.

In this chat with Antoinette Lattouf, Dr Karl unpacks his family’s traumatic journey and Holocaust survival to how he thinks OnlyFans could help climate change.

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