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North of Ordinary: Survival, Solitude, and Choosing Your Own Way with Sue Aikens
What extreme wilderness survival reveals about resilience, healing, and the strength forged far from comfort.
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Why Germ Theory Took So Long
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Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance and Tragedy in Alzheimer’s Research with Charles Piller
In our first episode of Foodie Pharmacology Season 8, we take an investigative look at scientific misconduct, groupthink, and the human cost of getting…
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Nearly a thousand years ago, a Persian physician articulated principles of experimentation that still shape how we evaluate medicines today.
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How We Know What We Know: Reconstructing the Earliest Medicines
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