Epidemiologist Claims MAGA Is An Epidemic Caused By "Brain Flaws." Only Problem Is, That's Completely Unscientific and Based On Almost Nothing.

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Thomas Smith

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🗓️ 30 November 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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SIO466 - Dr. Gary Slutkin has been cited in Salon and other outlets as an expert epidemiologist who runs an impressive NGO that helps reduce violence. While he may be an epidemiologist, almost everything else about him and his claims seems to be... very likely bull shit. Dr. Jenessa Seymour joins us to break this down. It gets more and more bull shit as we go, and eventually we're both live debunking parts of this nonsense.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to series inquiries only. This is episode 465. I'm your host Thomas Smith,
0:16.1	and I'm joined by a guest today. Janessa, you're here right at the beginning. We're cutting
0:19.9	straight to the chase. How are you doing today? Doing pretty good. How about you? today. Janessa, you're here right at the beginning. We're cutting straight to the chase.
0:21.8	How are you doing today?
0:22.8	Doing pretty good.
0:23.4	How about you?
0:28.5	Yeah, I mean, we're back to that fucking in Trump-adjusted terms.
0:29.2	Yes.
0:33.2	It's a relative question for the next four years. And even then, it's still fine.
0:39.0	No, doing well.
0:40.3	Happy to be talking to you.
0:41.8	We're going to talk about my favorite named epidemiologist, Dr. Gary Slutkin.
0:47.6	Yeah.
0:48.3	I can't help it.
0:49.2	Sorry, that's funny.
0:50.2	It's an objectively great name.
0:51.9	I hope he, you know how they often say that people get into fields related to their names?
0:56.5	I hope that his nightlife is active.
1:00.2	But anyway, is MAGA a disease, an epidemic?
1:04.1	We're going to talk about that.
1:05.2	Of course, we have to take our usual break.
1:06.7	So is there anything you want to tease out of that?
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