Sadie Dingfelder on Mosquito Magnets and Who Tastes Best to Bugs
The Gist
Mike Pesca
4.4 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
President Trump mangles acetaminophen and issues a sweeping “don’t take Tylenol” decree. Are some people truly more attractive to mosquitoes than others? Sadie Dingfelder joins to walk through decades of mosquito studies, from Gambian huts filled with human volunteers to modern lab assays with paraffin membranes, and explains why carbon dioxide, sweat, and even bananas can make one person a mosquito buffet while another goes unbitten. She answers the question “Is It Bullshit?” Also: a spiel on Tom Homan, a $50,000 bribe, and a bright yellow Cava bag that says as much about government indifference as it does about corruption.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025 from Peach Fish Productions. |
| 0:07.6 | It's the gist. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm Mike Peska. |
| 0:09.7 | Yesterday, President Trump issued a government recommendation, and specifically his strong |
| 0:14.7 | recommendation, that pregnant women not take Tylenol, or, as he called the generic, |
| 0:20.5 | effective immediately, the FDA will be notifying physicians at the use of |
| 0:24.9 | acid, well, let's see how we say that. |
| 0:29.7 | Acidaminophen. |
| 0:32.3 | Wait, that's not it. Wasn't it this? |
| 0:34.6 | To think that we settled AberbayBijian. Now, he did eventually nail that point, |
| 0:42.7 | the Azerbaijan point. He was speaking in the UK last week, bragging about the peace deal |
| 0:48.1 | he struck between two countries. |
| 0:52.4 | Aberbaijan and Albania, as an example. |
| 0:56.0 | It was going on for years. |
| 0:57.6 | And listen, Albania, that is how you pronounce Albania. |
| 1:01.3 | Only thing is Albania wasn't one of the countries at war that he helped settle. |
| 1:06.6 | That would be Azerbaijan and Armenia. |
| 1:10.3 | So with this acetaminophen announcement, it's good that Trump hasn't stuck to a plan of only announcing policies on words he can pronounce because that would be too limiting. |
| 1:21.4 | What is a shame is that despite mispronouncing acetaminopin is that he mistook preliminary findings or perhaps |
| 1:30.2 | recommendations indicated by science as much more definitive than they were and issued a bold |
| 1:37.8 | pronouncement against doing something that even a co-author of the study about Tylenol |
| 1:43.9 | and acetaminopin recommends against. |
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