The Hadacol Boogie

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

Mark Chrisler

Science, Natural Sciences, Design, Arts, History

4.7 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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There are lots of stories about drugs that changed the medical industry. But here's one about a drug that changed the entertainment industry, too. How about a free fourteen day trial of Shopify? Grab it here! Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant Visit our Patreon here. BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! The Constant is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Interested in advertising on The Constant? Email [email protected] to get on board! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
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0:30.0	just how you like it this is my taste.
0:40.5	What's yours?
0:45.9	Celebrate your unique taste with Diet Coke. On March 21st, 1941, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia seized, quote,
1:04.1	21 and a half gross packages of a patent medicine called Happy Day headache powder from Max Kaplan, owner of Capital Drug Co in Roanoke, Virginia,
1:15.4	and inadvertently began one of the last and most fantastic medicine shows in American history.
1:24.9	To fully grok the context, I recommend going back two episodes and listening to the first two parts of our medicine show history, if you haven't already.
1:34.0	But it's been a while. So as a reminder, and I'm not doing it in song this time, when we last left off,
1:40.1	author, screenwriter, and muckraking journalist Samuel Hopkins Adams had written a gigantic
1:45.7	expose on patent medicines called the Great American Fraud, which had prompted Congress to pass
1:52.4	the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. But then the Supreme Court got involved, cut the law off at
1:59.3	the kneecaps, and allowed the sham medicine industry to flourish
2:02.6	once more. Congress passed a series of amendments to the Pure Food and Drug Act, designed to restore
2:08.0	some of its former power, but with limited success. So, after just five years or so of real
2:14.9	regulation, the American pharmaceutical industry returned to its
2:18.6	full-on Wild West beginnings.
2:21.2	Through the 1930s, there was no meaningful federal legislation for how and what drugs could
2:27.1	be sold.
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