Hello Mife, My Old Friend. Junk Science Is Attacking You Again.
Boom! Lawyered
Rewire News Group
4.8 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, fellow law nerds. |
| 0:13.6 | Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyard, a Rewire News Group podcast hosted by the legal |
| 0:18.6 | journalism team that went roller skating over the weekend and |
| 0:22.8 | didn't break an ankle. Very proud. I'm ReWire News Group's editor at large, Imani Gandy. |
| 0:28.1 | That kind of feels like an attack, Amani. Because of your foot surgery. Because of my foot surgery. |
| 0:37.0 | And I'm Jess Peklo, who did not go roller skating because I'm recovering from a foot surgery. |
| 0:43.7 | I also happen to be Rewire News Group's executive editor. |
| 0:47.4 | Rewire News Group is the one and only home for expert reprojournalism that inspires you to heal at your own pace. |
| 0:57.7 | Thank you. And the boomlayered podcast is part of that mission. So a big thanks to our subscribers and a welcome to our new listeners. Jess, we've been |
| 1:04.2 | talking a lot about junk science on this podcast. And you know that I've had a wild hair about it for |
| 1:10.1 | years. |
| 1:12.0 | Years. |
| 1:13.3 | And in fact, our entire organization has, right? |
| 1:16.4 | A decade ago, ReWire News Group published this sort of rogues gallery of false expert |
| 1:22.3 | witnesses. |
| 1:22.9 | We call it our false witnesses gallery. |
| 1:24.7 | It was so good. |
| 1:25.5 | These are anti-abortion doctors who make a living testifying as experts in cases based |
| 1:31.8 | on bullshit studies and junk science that they have concocted with other anti-abortion |
| 1:37.8 | doctors who make a living testifying as experts in abortion cases. |
| 1:41.7 | So you and I are familiar with a lot of the names that have been popping |
| 1:45.6 | up over the last couple few weeks, right? And I specifically want to shout out Sophia Resnick. She's a |
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