July 1, 2025July 1, 2025Season 8 Episode 180 Food Dyes: It’s all marketing This episode, we aren’t asking you to taste the rainbow, but we are scrutinizing the artificial dyes that give it its color. […]
June 25, 2025June 25, 2025Season 8, TPWKY Book Club Special Episode: Professor Steven Mithen & The Language Puzzle From the earliest grunts and gestures to the complex sentences we use today to convey a multitude of concepts, language has evolved […]
June 17, 2025July 1, 2025Season 8 Ep 179 Fluoride 2: Fighting tooth and nail In last week’s episode, we traced the history of fluoridation (and the anti-fluoridation movement) to its roots in the early 20th century, […]
June 16, 2025June 16, 2025Season 8 Ep 178 Fluoride 1: The real tooth fairy Is it just us, or does it seem like every other week there’s a new headline about some state or town banning […]
June 16, 2025June 16, 2025Season 8, TPWKY Book Club Special Episode: Dr. Wendy Kline & Exposed For many of us, pelvic exams are a routine part of our healthcare. Of course, that doesn’t mean we don’t await them […]
June 16, 2025June 16, 2025Season 8 Episode 177 Toxic Shock Syndrome: A shock to the system If you’ve ever read the little instructions pamphlet included in a box of tampons, you probably came across a paragraph calling attention […]
May 22, 2025May 22, 2025Season 8 Episode 176 Strychnine: The WD-40 of Victorian Medicine This week, we’re coming at you with a classic TPWKY episode on one of the most notorious poisons out there: strychnine. Although […]
May 22, 2025May 22, 2025Season 8, TPWKY Book Club Special Episode: Dr. Adam Ratner & Booster Shots For the past few months, measles has been in regular rotation in the news cycle here in the US, with outbreaks occurring […]
May 6, 2025April 17, 2025Season 8 Episode 175 What’s the deal with raw milk: Part 2 Last week, we started this two-parter with a big picture view of pasteurization and the raw milk movement. In this episode, we […]
April 29, 2025April 17, 2025Season 8 Episode 174 What’s the deal with raw milk: Part 1 Seriously, what’s the deal? Lately, it seems like raw milk has started to pop up more and more frequently in our feeds, […]