Wash Your Hands and Watch This Clip from ‘Bill Nye Saves the World’ Featuring Michael Ian Black

Ahead of the season 2 debut of Bill Nye Saves the World on Netflix tomorrow, here’s a sneak peek from the show featuring special guest Michael Ian Black as 19th-century physician Ignaz Semmelweis, whose whole theory that “Hey, maybe doctors should wash their hands after touching dead bodies?†was way ahead of its time – to the point where Semmelweis’s ideas were dismissed by other doctors and he was ultimately locked up in an asylum at the end of his life: “In my day, you came to the hospital giving birth and you left in a body bag. Whatevs!â€Â In other words, it’s a weirdly fitting clip to close out a year like 2017. Catch the rest when season 2 of Bill Nye Saves the World premieres on Netflix tomorrow, and in the meantime, check out the star-studded trailer for the new season below:

Wash Your Hands and Watch This Clip from ‘Bill Nye […]