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The Gist

Are Probiotics Bulls--t?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Today on The Gist, it's an episode that comes from the gut. First, reporters Erin Quinn and Chris Young of the Center for Public Integrity explain how companies have exploited a decades-old loophole in FDA approval of new food additives. Their article is called "Why the FDA Doesn't Really Know What's in Your Food." And, in another installment of "Is That Bulls--t?" Mike asks Maria Konnikova of the New Yorker if the science backs up the hype around healthy bacteria. For the Spiel, Mike quacks a joke. Today's sponsor: Stamps.com. Sign up for a no-risk trial and get a $110 bonus offer, when you visit Stamps.com and enter promo code TheGist. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at http://www.slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015. From Slate, it's the Just Is Mike Pasca. Let me update you

0:58.4

on the fighting in Yemen and more importantly, the names of the fighting in Yemen, so the Saudis

1:04.0

teaming with Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, the Gulf States, some Yemen Sunnis. They fought, they bombed

1:09.9

the hell out of the Houthi rebels and this was called Operation Discise of Storm in the Nomenclature

1:16.4

selected by the Saudis. Hundreds were killed. Thousands were displaced. Some Houthis took it on the

1:21.6

chin and now it's over. And that was what Operation Discise of Storm was intended to do. Make it

1:27.6

decisive. Was it decisive? Not really. Let me quote foreign policy magazine. The ending of operations

1:33.1

came amid signs that the weeks of strikes had done little to push the Houthis out of the area

1:37.1

of Yemen they now control or slow their advance toward the key port city of Aden. By the way,

1:42.0

port cities in these war zones never tertiary port cities are not important port cities. All the

1:47.2

port cities are so okay. Anyway, the Saudis declared victory, but they also said, yeah, we'll

1:52.7

probably be dropping a light dusting of bombs again in the future. But even if we haven't won,

1:57.6

we have done this. We've renamed the operation. It is now operation, hope, restore, not to be

2:04.6

confused with Operation Hope Davis or Operation Stock Reshell or Operation Dell Computer Reboot

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