From Revisionist History: Way to Go, Ohio

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

We’re sharing a bonus episode from our friends at Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast about things misunderstood and overlooked. This season, Malcolm’s obsessed with experiments – natural experiments, scientific experiments, thought experiments. In this preview, you’ll hear about a mysterious and disfiguring disease that plagued parts of the world in the last century. No one could find a remedy, until a doctor in Ohio conducted a controversial experiment and finally found a cure…with an everyday condiment. You can hear more of Revisionist History at https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/rhs7?sid=health.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:10.0	High listeners, Shoshana here.
0:12.0	We're doing things a little differently today
0:14.0	and sharing a preview of another show that we love,
0:17.0	revisionist history.
0:19.0	In it, Malcolm Gladwell re-examines something from the past
0:23.0	and asks whether we got it right the first time.
0:26.0	This season, he's obsessed with experiments.
0:29.0	Natural experiments, scientific ones, thought experiments,
0:34.0	even magic wand experiments.
0:36.0	The ones we'd try if we didn't have to worry about money,
0:39.0	ethics or laws of nature.
0:42.0	The preview you're about to hear introduces Malcolm's own
0:45.0	magic wand experiment.
0:47.0	And it's a perfect example of why experiments are so important.
0:51.0	A century ago, a mysterious and disfiguring disease
0:54.0	plagued parts of the world.
0:56.0	No one could find a remedy until a doctor in Ohio
0:59.0	conducted a controversial experiment and finally found a cure
1:03.0	within every day condiment.
1:06.0	Okay, here's the preview.
1:08.0	We hope you enjoy it.
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