The Rise of the Guinea Pigs

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Minnesota Starvation Experiment could never be done today. No scientist could get permission to starve 36 healthy people for close to a year. But why? Revisionist History tries to follow the strange logic that governs our thinking about medical experiments.

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0:00.0	Pushkin
0:11.0	One of my favorite podcasts is called
0:13.5	This Week in Virology
0:16.0	Twiv as its known
0:18.0	This Week in Virology
0:20.0	The podcast about viruses
0:22.5	The kind that make you sick
0:25.5	On the show, a prominent virologist named Vincent Rackeniello
0:30.5	has a weekly chat with colleagues from around the country
0:33.5	updating their listeners on the latest news from around the world
0:37.5	about microbes
0:39.5	Twiv is a very big deal
0:42.5	It's the tonight show only for virologists
0:45.5	For my birthday, my friend Charles got me a Twiv t-shirt
0:48.5	which I'm wearing right now
0:50.5	Twiv has taught me more about science than the world
0:53.5	Twiv has taught me more about science than almost anything I can remember
0:56.5	And one of their most memorable episodes is called
1:00.5	I love the smell of vaccines in the morning
1:03.5	Many people sent this to us asking our thoughts
1:07.5	And so there you go, we're going to give you our thoughts
1:10.5	I love the smell of vaccines in the morning
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