Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha on Politics, Lead, and the Flint Water Crisis

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Mike talks to Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, director of the pediatrics residency at the Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan, and an assistant professor at Michigan State University's College of Human Medicine, where she heads the Hurley Children’s Hospital Public Health Initiative. It was through Dr, Mona’s courageous and unflagging efforts that the public learned about the dangerous levels of lead in Flint's drinking water. Her work has been recognized by numerous environmental groups, including the Michigan Environmental Council, the Children's Environmental Health Network, and the Union of Concerned Sciences. She's the author of a recently released book on the Flint crisis, titled What The Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City. Follow Dr. Mona on Twitter Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. If you’re interested in supporting the show, go to politicsguys.com/support. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Politics Guys interview, conversations about American politics, economics, history, and culture with authors and researchers from across the ideological spectrum.
0:09.6	I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.
0:13.5	You might be wondering why we have an interview today instead of our usual Wednesday responses to listener questions and comments.
0:22.0	Well, there are a couple of reasons.
0:23.4	First, we had a little bit of a communication staff view,
0:26.6	snafoo, and Jay wasn't able to do the show this week.
0:31.3	And many of the listener questions we had involved, Jay.
0:34.8	So without him, there really wouldn't have been a whole lot for Trey and me to discuss. Secondly, we're actually going back to Wednesday interviews on
0:43.4	the politics guys. Not every Wednesday, but on a fairly regular basis. Now, as you probably
0:50.2	know, if you've been listening for a while, A little over a month ago, I started a second
0:54.5	podcast, Politics Plus. And in that, I planned to have a new interview every week. Well, it turns out
1:01.9	that that was overly ambitious, let's say. It's not that I couldn't get enough great guests to
1:08.1	come on. In fact, I've got this major backlog of really amazing guests,
1:12.8	and I've developed relationships with a bunch of publishers.
1:15.8	They're sending me books all the time and asking me to have their authors on.
1:19.4	It's really been overwhelming.
1:22.1	The problem is that it takes a lot of time to read these books and put together what I consider to be,
1:29.7	what I hope to be, thoughtful questions. And I really didn't want to be the sort of interviewer
1:34.0	who just kind of, you know, throws some questions together after reading whatever, the flap
1:38.3	of the book or the intro and the conclusion, just basically to create regular content.
1:43.5	I mean, I feel like there were already too many
1:46.0	interview shows like that, and what's the point of having another one? And then after that,
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