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Corporate Science Wants You to Buy the World a Coke / Susan Greenhalgh

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🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Susan Greenhalgh joins us to discuss her new book, "Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca Cola" (University of Chicago Press). "This Day in Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview. Check out Susan's book here: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo221451790.html Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell Please rate and review This Is Hell! wherever you get your podcasts. It really helps the show ascend the algorithm to reach new listeners.

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0:00.0

The New Yorker, girl, I'm the ship in a place.

0:03.0

Uptown girl, I'm the ship in a place.

0:06.0

Downtown girl, I'm the ship in a place.

0:08.0

A London girl am the ship in a place.

0:11.0

New York girl, I'm the ship.

0:14.0

I'm the shape.

0:16.0

And I give my head.

0:18.0

A d'all.

0:20.0

My job. And they're a big tis going on bus. And I'm a ship. This is a man dead and we have ma'am many minds. This is going to

0:21.8

and bust out.

0:22.6

This This is Hell

0:42.9

Manufacturing dissent since 1996

0:49.5

This is hell

0:53.5

and a dissenting opinion in the United States, in China and most of the world,

0:58.3

even at your family dinner table, would be if you said exercise does not solve the problem of obesity.

1:07.0

We've been told repeatedly that if we eat well and exercise, we can avoid all the chronic diseases that are associated with being overweight or obese.

1:16.6

However, what eating well means can very greatly from one suggested diet to the next, and not all of us are dietitians capable of necessarily selecting the best diet or making the best health care decisions for ourselves.

1:32.0

But that is what has increasingly been expected of us under the last half century of neoliberalism.

1:38.1

As sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottam told us way back in 2017 when discussing her book Lower Ed the troubling

1:46.9

rise of for-profit colleges in the new economy. Under neoliberalism, we are all on our own.

1:58.4

That includes being on our own to make healthcare choices that could cost us our lives,

2:03.7

or hopefully save them. Those decisions are more and more difficult to make when we are not

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