Maintenance Phase

The rise, fall and rise of the most nonsensical conspiracy theory we've ever heard.

Thanks to Gregg Gonsalves for helping us fact-check this episode!

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• Denying AIDS: Conspiracy Theories and Pseudoscience in a Post-COVID World
• Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge
• The Duesberg Phenomenon
• AIDS Denialism Beliefs among People Living with HIV/AIDS
• HIV Denial in the Internet Era
• HIV Denial in the COVID Era
• How COVID conspiracy theories led to an alarming resurgence in AIDS denialism
• The Man Who Thought AIDS Was All In The Mind
• AIDS "Dissident" Seeks Redemption
• Truth and Heresy About AIDS
• Defending the boundaries of science
• Justice After AIDS Denialism
• AIDS Denialism vs. Science
• The Unbeliever
• Estimating the lost benefits of ARV use in South Africa
• Conspiracy beliefs about HIV/AIDS
• Are HIV/AIDS Conspiracy Beliefs a Barrier to HIV Prevention Among African Americans?
• HIV causes AIDS: Koch's postulates fulfilled
• AIDS And The Scientific Governance Of Medicine In Post-Apartheid South Africa
• The Denialists
• Has Duesberg a right of reply?

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We’re nearly halfway through Trump's second term and we still don’t have a Surgeon General. What gives?

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• White House withdraws nomination of Janette Nesheiwat
• Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Distorted Key Parts of Her Résumé
• Dr. Janette Nesheiwat takes role at Walter Reed treating Havana Syndrome
• When Did RFK Jr Start Listening to Calley and Casey Means?
• What Casey Means and MAHA Want You to Fear
• Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Is Tearing the MAHA Movement Apart
• Trump surgeon general pick said mushrooms helped her find love
• The Dizzying Rise of MAHA Warrior Calley Means
• Casey Means Poised to Become Nation’s Top Doctor
• Casey Means discloses financial ties to supplement industry
• Laura Loomer Targets Trump’s Pick for Surgeon General
• The Bad Science of Good Energy
• Trump's Surgeon General Pick Tried to Trademark MAHA
• Can Trump's latest pick for surgeon general make it through confirmation?
• New surgeon general pick in deleted posts criticized Trump, RFK Jr
• Trump’s pick for SG sells supplement with ingredient banned by Pentagon
• Trump’s new surgeon general pick deepens MAHA-MAGA rift

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In the 1980s, a low-sodium diet was seen as the gold standard for healthy behavior. In 2026, salt has been repackaged as “electrolytes” and is now cast as a core component of wellness. How did we get here?

Also, an important correction: One pound of butter to one pound of potatoes is Joel Robuchon’s recipe.

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• The 25 Saltiest Restaurant Meals in America
• Facts, Issues, and Controversies in Salt Reduction for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
• Salt Wars
• The INTERSALT Study: background, methods, findings, and implications
• Sodium reduction
• Sodium Intake Reduction: An Important But Elusive Public Health Goal
• Effects of Diet and Sodium Intake
• Salt intake, stroke, and cardiovascular disease
• Racial and Ethnic Differences in Sodium Sources and Sodium Reduction Behaviors Among US Adults
• The Great Salt Debate: So Bad?
• Salt guidelines draw heavy backlash
• Sodium Reduction in US Households’ Packaged Food and Beverage Purchases
• Blood pressure lowering efficacy of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors for primary hypertension

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We're joined by Mike's If Books Could Kill co-host to revisit a biohacking diet book for the boys.

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• The 4-Hour Body
• Does Glycemic Index Matter for Weight Loss? An Examination of the Evidence
• New! Improved! Shape Up Your Life!
• The 4-Hour Body: The Real App You Are Working On Is An App Called Yourself

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What do you do when you've flamed out as a Hollywood actor, a political commentator and a wellness guru? You make a YouTube channel.

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• Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assaults and abuse
• Exposing Russell Brand
• Russell Brand And The Conspiracy Grift
• Russell Brand on revolution
• Celebrity Capital in the Political Field: Russell Brand’s migration from stand-up comedy to Newsnight
• “Arthur” lawsuit against Brand
• BBC says it received five complaints about presenter
• Woman says star exposed himself to her
• Russell Brand, Seriously
• How the U.S. is sabotaging its best tools to prevent deaths in the opioid epidemic
• Russell Brand And The Conspiracy Grift
• Russell Brand’s fellow travellers should defend their claims in court

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Tracing the left-to-right political trajectory of the unfunniest man in British comedy.

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• Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assaults and abuse
• Exposing Russell Brand
• Russell Brand And The Conspiracy Grift
• Russell Brand on revolution
• Celebrity Capital in the Political Field: Russell Brand’s migration from stand-up comedy to Newsnight
• “Arthur” lawsuit against Brand
• BBC says it received five complaints about presenter
• Woman says star exposed himself to her
• Russell Brand, Seriously
• How the U.S. is sabotaging its best tools to prevent deaths in the opioid epidemic
• Russell Brand And The Conspiracy Grift
• Russell Brand’s fellow travellers should defend their claims in court

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The rags-to-riches tale of how an illegal methamphetamine manufacturer became a legal methamphetamine manufacturer.

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• How the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 Weakened the FDA
• Mad About Metabolife
• Stimulant Propels Diet Empire
• The dangers of the herb ephedra - Harvard Health
• An Historical Review of Steps and Missteps in the Discovery of Anti-Obesity Drugs
• Weight Loss the Herbal Way: No All-Natural Silver Bullet
• Over-the-Counter-Strategy - The Washington Post
• Anxious Pill-Maker Puts ABC Interview on the Web
• A 'Neutral' Comment, a Company's Tough Reaction
• Metabolife Intern., Inc. v. Wornick (S.D. Cal. 1999)
• Ephedra hearings in the US House of Representatives
• Expert Panel Finds Flaws In Diet Pill Safety Study
• Letter Urging a Criminal Investigation of Metabolife - Public Citizen
• Perspective; Regulation of Dietary Drugs Is Long Overdue
• No Limit, for Now, on a Dieting Supplement
• U.S. Bans Dietary Supplement Linked to Number of Deaths

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Once widely banned, raw milk consumption is on the rise and states are repealing their bans. No one’s happier about that than the far right. How did we get here?

NOTE: In the retelling of Pasteur’s early pasteurization, Aubrey misspoke! The culprit wasn’t lactic yeast, it was lactic acid bacteria. Sorry for the slip up!

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• Milk!: A 10,000 Year Food Fracas
• U.S. Consumer survey
• The Effects of Pasteurization on Vitamins
• Lingering Heat over Pasteurized Milk
• How pasteurization improves safety
• Swill-Milk and Infant Mortality
• Alta Dena (Court case 1, Court case 2, Alta Dena's raw milk history)
• A Raw Milk Magnate Has Spent Years Fighting Public Health Agencies
• Should This Milk Be Legal?
• The Amish farmer who ignited outrage over raw milk
• Why Are People Promoting Raw Milk?
• The Quest for Raw Milk
• Some Raw Truths About Raw Milk
• Right Wing Commentators Are Pushing Misinformation
• How Raw Milk Went From Hippie to MAGA
• Here's why raw milk drinkers need to be concerned about bird flu
• Influencers promote raw milk

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One blogger bravely pushes back against Starbucks, Subway and basic scientific facts.

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• Taking On the Food Industry, One Blog Post at a Time
• How the ‘Food Babe’ Went From Obama Ally to Trump Crusader
• Activist or Capitalist? How the 'Food Babe' Makes Money
• Latest Food Scare: What Is The 'Yoga Mat' Chemical - And Why Is It In Your Food?
• Almost 500 Foods Contain The 'Yoga Mat' Compound. Should We Care?
• Are You Eating This Ingredient Banned All Over the World?
• The "Food Babe" Blogger is Full of Shit
• Are Microwaves Safe?
• Global Food Security Index 2022
• Differences between EU and US nutrition labels go far beyond ounces and grams
• Is Food Really Better in Europe?
• Vani Hari: How She Grew Her Food Blog Into An Empire
• Food blogger asks Kraft to stop using dye in mac and cheese
• Meet the food blogger influencing RFK Jr.
• Food Babe blogger Vani Hari taking heat over health science

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Why are you, as a man, afraid of sunflowers.

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• The O6-O3 ratio: A critical appraisal
• Seed Oils: Are They Actually Toxic?
• No need to avoid healthy omega-6 fats
• Omega-6 Fatty Acids and Risk for Cardiovascular Disease
• Do Seed Oils Make You Sick?
• Seed oils: Are they healthy or harmful?
• ToxGuide: Hexane
• Dietary linoleic acid intake and blood inflammatory markers
• Effect of dietary alpha-linolenic acid on blood inflammatory markers
• Changes in consumption of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids
• The Skinny on Fats
• Dietary oleic acid drives obesogenic adipogenesis
• How Seed Oils May Be Affecting Your Body Fat and Health
• Stanford nutrition expert breaks down effects of seed oils
• The Newest Bitcoin Diet Trend Is Hating ‘Seed Oils’
• Omega-6 Fatty Acids and Coronary Artery Disease
• The Great Con-ola

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We’re talking about our first diet MLM and IT’S A REAL DOOZY!

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• Herbalife: Weighty Profits and Government Probes
• Herbalife Exec's Death Prompts Bizarre Fallout
• Autopsy on Herbalife founder finds death caused by accidental overdose
• The Uncertain Start of a Remarkable Life
• Nobel Prize Winner Didn't Disclose Herbalife Contract
• Latinos crucial to Herbalife's financial health
• Latino Group Demands Herbalife Probe
• The Big Short War
• The Siege of Herbalife
• After Big Bet, Hedge Fund Pulls the Levers of Power
• Herbalife Will Restructure and Pay $200 Million to Settle FTC Charges
• An inside look at the $200 million FTC settlement
• U.S. says Herbalife to pay $123.1 million to resolve China bribery case
• Herbalife announces new CEO to lead the L.A. nutrition company

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• Mark Hughes' origin story
• Senate committee hearing
• Celebrity endorsement
• Former Herbalife Distributors Speak Out

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Everyone agrees that processed foods are bad for you. When it comes to defining what they actually are, however, there is considerably less agreement.

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• Nutrition and health. The issue is not food, nor nutrients, so much as processing
• Ultra-Processed Foods: Definitions and Policy Issues
• Examining the Nova Food Classification System and the Healthfulness of Ultra-Processed Foods
• A new classification of foods based on the extent and purpose of their processing
• Ultra-processed diets cause excess calorie intake and weight gain
• Why Is the American Diet So Deadly?
• Ultra-processed foods and mortality
• Association of ultra-processed food intake with risk of inflammatory bowel disease: prospective cohort study
• Academic and doctor Chris van Tulleken: ‘Ultra-processed products are food that lies to us’
• Food addiction: a valid concept?
• The study of food addiction using animal models of binge eating
• Obesity and the brain: how convincing is the addiction model?
• Ultra-processed foods and cardiovascular disease: analysis of three large US prospective cohorts
• Sugar addiction: the state of the science
• The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Food
• Premature Mortality Attributable to Ultraprocessed Food Consumption in 8 Countries
• Ultra-processed food intake and animal-based food intake

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From our Patreon feed, we're catching up with RFK Jr. and his cadre of "Make America Healthy Again" influencers.

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Meet the tech bro on a noble quest to double his lifespan, improve his productivity and irritate his waitress.

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• Mycotoxins Myth: The Truth About Mold in Coffee
• Guidance for Industry: Action Levels for Poisonous or Deleterious Substances in Human Food and Animal Feed
• You, Only Better
• FTC letter to Dave Asprey
• Alternative medicine fans see RFK Jr. as a hero. The field’s skeptics worry.
• The Bulletproof Diet is everything wrong with eating in America
• Bulletproof Coffee: Debunking the Hot Buttered Hype
• Buttered Coffee Could Make You Invincible. And This Man Very Rich

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The places where humans live the longest are explained by traditional lifestyles, widespread incest or systematic fraud, there is no fourth option.

Thanks to Catherine MacDonald for helping us research and fact-check this episode!

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• The global pattern of centenarians highlights deep problems in demography
• Late-life mortality is underestimated because of data errors
• Supercentenarian and remarkable age records exhibit patterns indicative of clerical errors and pension fraud
• Do People in ‘Blue Zones’ Actually Live Longer?
• They really are that old: a validation study of centenarian prevalence in Okinawa
• The Real Facts Supporting Jeanne Calment as the Oldest Ever Human
• A Population Where Men Live As Long As Women: Villagrande Strisaili, Sardinia
• Typologies of Extreme Longevity Myths
• Sardinian dietary analysis for longevity: a review of the literature
• Identification of a geographic area characterized by extreme longevity in the Sardinia island
• Specific features of the oldest old from the Longevity Blue Zones in Ikaria and Sardinia
• Making the Blue Zones: Neoliberalism and nudges in public health promotion
• Human longevity: Genetics or Lifestyle?
• Familial transmission of human longevity

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The internet gets weird investigating the "disappearance" of America's gay best friend.

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• Richard Simmons Show
• Richard Simmons, the Original Queer Eye
• The Grand Duke of Diet and the Clown Prince of Fitness
• The Sultan of Svelte
• The Deregulation Of Commercial Television
• Simmons Says Slapping Mesa Man Was Meant as Playful
• Richard Simmons’ Life Was a ‘Never-Ending Work in Progress’
• Richard Simmons ordered to pay $130,000 after transgender lawsuit
• Richard Simmons' family asks Pauly Shore to please stop
• Pauly Shore's Richard Simmons biopic might actually be dead
• Richard Simmons' Death Was an 'Accident'
• Richard Simmons' Housekeeper of 35 Years Breaks Her Silence
• How eating disorders can damage the heart

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Before building his fitness empire, America’s most bedazzled fitness guru was a guy named Milton from New Orleans.

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• Still Hungry...After All These Years by Richard Simmons
• "Hair-Do"
• Anatomy Asylum Commercial
• Richard Simmons: New Orleans's hometown hero
• A Speedy History of America’s Addiction to Amphetamine

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How a mother, a daughter and a crackpot Swiss psychologist gave us the world's most popular Buzzfeed quiz.

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• The Personality Brokers by Merve Emre
• Myers Briggs Type Preferences
• What Personality Tests Really Deliver
• The $2 Billion Question of Who You Are at Work
• Cautionary Comments Regarding the MBTI
• The Barnum Effect in Personality Assessment
• The Mysterious Popularity Of The Meaningless Myers-Briggs
• Why the Myers-Briggs personality test is totally meaningless
• Can you truly know yourself in a quiz?
• What You Don't Know about This Personality Test Can Hurt You
• MBTI, If You Want Me Back, You Need to Change Too
• Personality Tests Aren't All the Same
• The Utility of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

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We went a little easy on the Cass Report in our last main feed episode, so we're back to [Mortal Kombat voice] FINISH HIM!!!

This was supposed to be a Patreon bonus episode but we'd rather you support the lovely trans people who helped us with the research and fact-checking of this episode!

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Thanks to Jules Gill-Peterson (jgillpeterson.com) and Julia Serano (patreon.com/juliaserano) for help researching this episode and Evan Urquhart, Parker Molloy and Katelyn Burns for fact-checking!

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• Origins of "Social Contagion" and "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria"
• The "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria" Controversy at AACAP's Annual Meeting
• Methodological Critique Of The Cass Review
• Methodological Critique of Littman (2018)
• Parent reports of adolescents and young adults perceived to show signs of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria
• A critical commentary on ‘rapid-onset gender dysphoria’.
• Foundations Of The Contemporary Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscience Network
• Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1,655 Possible Cases
• Opinion: England's Anti-Trans Cass Review Is Politics Disguised As Science
• Tavistock v Bell
• Actually Nothing: The Non-Starter Non-Story of the WPATH Files
• As anti-trans legislation proliferates in 2024, community fears erasure from public view
• States Passed a Record Number of Transgender Laws. Here’s What They Say.

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Thanks to Jules Gill-Peterson (jgillpeterson.com) and Julia Serano (patreon.com/juliaserano) for help researching this episode and Evan Urquhart and Parker Molloy for fact-checking!

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• Origins of "Social Contagion" and "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria"
• What does the scholarly research say about the effect of gender transition on transgender well-being?
• Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care
• Fresh trans myths of 2017: “rapid onset gender dysphoria”
• Rapid Onset of Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents and Young Adults: a Descriptive Study
• The Detransitioners: They Were Transgender, Until They Weren't
• How the idea of a “transgender contagion” went viral—and caused untold harm
• Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care
• 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria' Is Biased Junk Science
• A careful step into a field of landmines
• Detransition, Desistance, and Disinformation: A Guide for Understanding Transgender Children Debates
• Recognizing and responding to misleading trans health research

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In the 2000s, Jamie Oliver made a big splash with his work reforming kids’ meals in the UK and US. Was his work wicked slammin’, or just proper rustic?

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• BBC Profile - Jamie Oliver
• Jamie Oliver Puts America's Diet on a Diet
• All The Times Jamie Oliver Made Everyone Angry
• Unpacking School Lunch: Understanding the Hidden Politics of School Food
• A brief history of school meals in the UK
• Turkey Twizzlers: A Complete History
• Marcus Rashford Is Fighting the Government on Free School Meals. He’s Also Fighting Jamie Oliver’s Legacy
• Has Jamie Bitten off More Than He Can Chew?
• Jamie Oliver, you haven’t tasted real poverty
• Jamie Oliver’s campaign against childhood obesity has classist undertones
• Jamie’s jerk rice is a recipe for disaster

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What was missing from America's pandemic response? According to the internet, a sunshine vitamin, a malaria treatment and a whole lot of horse paste.

Thanks to Health Nerd (Substack) for helping us fact-check this episode! And thanks to Abby Mahler (Twitter, Tiktok) for help with the research on hydroxychloroquine!

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• How Musk Sold MAGA on HCQ
• Prominent Anti-Vaxxer’s Snake Oil Store Has a Propaganda Outlet
• Nine COVID-19 Myths That Just Won’t Go Away
• Disinformation and coronavirus
• COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Discussion on Twitter
• Pain in the Nation
• Are patients with hypertension and diabetes mellitus at increased risk for COVID-19 infection?
• Conspiracy theories as barriers to controlling the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.
• Vaccines vs. vitamins: COVID misinformation roils the worlds of wellness and nutrition
• A Decisive Verdict on Vitamin D Supplementation
• Why were Twitter Users Obsessed with Vitamin D during the first year of the pandemic?
• Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It
• The Truth about Vitamin D and COVID-19
• The Strange and Twisted Tale of Hydroxychloroquine
• Is Ivermectin for Covid-19 Based on Fraudulent Research?

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Ozempic is being hailed as “the end of the Obesity Epidemic.” This week, Mike and Aubrey dig through the sensational claims. But will they make it past the caveats?

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• How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic
• The Discovery and Development of Liraglutide and Semaglutide
• Ozempic and Wegovy maker courts prominent Black leaders to get Medicare's favor
• Insurers clamping down on doctors who prescribe Ozempic for weight loss
• Ozempic prescriptions can be easy to get online. Its popularity for weight loss is hurting those who need it most
• Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists in patients with type 2 diabetes: real-world evidence from a Mediterranean area
• Semaglutide in Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction and Obesity
• Real-world weight change, adherence, and discontinuation among patients with type 2 diabetes initiating glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists in the UK
• Safety of Semaglutide
• Semaglutide for the treatment of overweight and obesity: A review
• Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adolescents with Obesity
• Semaglutide 2.4 mg for the Treatment of Obesity: Key Elements of the STEP Trials 1 to 5
• Association of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist Use With Risk of Gallbladder and Biliary Diseases
• Real-World Adherence and Discontinuation of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients in the United States
• Medications and conditions associated with weight loss in patients prescribed semaglutide based on real-world data

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How a plant-based pejorative went from an alt-right burn to a core concern of mainstream Republicans.

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• Joe Explains the Term "Soy Boy" to Donnell Rawlings
• Alex Jones Gay Bomb Rant
• Soyboys and Sensitivity: Mocking Meat Avoidance from Punch to Twitter
• How the alt-right uses milk to promote white supremacy
• Men's Health 2009 piece
• Neither soy nor isoflavone intake affects male reproductive hormones
• A Brief History of Conservatives Using Tofu-Eating as an Insult
• The Soy Conspiracy
• Alex Jones’ Protegé, Paul Joseph Watson, Is About to Steal His Crackpot Crown
• Why Men Think Plant-Based Meat Will Turn Them Into Women
• Stangle: Impossible burgers are made of what?
• Plant-based meat and the knock-down, drag-out fight for the American diet
• Why Republicans Can’t Stop Talking About Masculinity
• Real American men and the liberal war on meat
• “The Great Replacement:” An Explainer

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Join us for a 75 minute answer to a 5 word question: Is there mercury in vaccines?

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• Paul Offit’s “Autism's False Prophets”
• Peter Hotez’s “The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science”
• Seth Mnookin’s “The Panic Virus”
• Jonathan M. Berman’s “Anti-vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement”
• Steve Silberman’s “Neurotribes”
• Transcript of the Simpsonwood meeting
• A Kennedy’s Crusade Against Covid Vaccines Anguishes Family and Friends
• Immunizations and Autism: A Review of the Literature
• CDC Studies on Thimerosal in Vaccines
• RFK Jr’s 2005 article on mercury and vaccines
• RFK Jr.’s Inside Job
• Vast Majority of Americans Say Benefits of Childhood Vaccines Outweigh Risks
• Correcting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• When Vaccine Injury Claims Go to Court
• Vaccine Compensation Hearing Decision

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A political candidate has some questions and we have some extremely obvious answers.

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• Eric Garcia’s “We’re Not Broken”
• Mike and Sarah’s episode on autism and the anti-vaxx movement
• Seth Mnookin’s “The Panic Virus”
• Jonathan M. Berman’s “Anti-vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement”
• Brian Deer’s “The Doctor Who Fooled the World”
• Paul Offit’s “Autism's False Prophets”
• Steve Silberman’s “Neurotribes”
• Peter Hotez’s “The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science”
• Behind The Bastards episode on smallpox anti-vaxxers
• RFK Jr.’s Inside Job
  The Conspiracy Candidate
• David Pitts's "Jack and Lem”
• RFK Jr.’s autobiography
• Immunizations and Autism: A Review of the Literature
• Wakefield’s article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent
• Correcting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine ‘facts’

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How a fitness influencer went from small-time scammer to one of the Internet’s leading villains.

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• Conversations with the Inspiring Brittany Dawn
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• Brittany Dawn's archived apology video
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• The Fitness-Driven Church | Christianity Today
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