The Tainted Polio Story

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

For much of human history, polio was absolutely terrifying. People weren't sure how it spread, they had no idea how to treat it, and they realized anyone could be infected. This changed with the emergence of polio vaccination, which was considered, for the most part, a massive success. But the rush to get this treatment finalized and out to the public led to one of the worst vaccine disasters in human history: investigators quickly learned the polio vaccine was actually giving people polio. Tune in to learn more.

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0:00.0	My name is M. William Phelps. For the past several years, I've been re-investigating the cases of two young women,
0:07.3	abducted from their small towns, their bodies dumped deep in the Ozark woods, with a connection to one very familiar name.
0:15.6	Find them, torture them, kill them, BTK.
0:18.6	Secrets finally revealed sending authorities rushing to confront a suspect who's been hiding in plain sight for decades.
0:27.0	Listen to Paper Ghosts, season 4 on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you find your favorite podcasts.
0:35.0	History is beautiful, brutal, and often ridiculous.
0:41.0	Join me Ben Bullen and me Noel Brown as we dive into some of the strangest stories from across the span of human civilization in ridiculous history.
0:51.0	Join us to hear the many ways history can be oh, so ridiculous.
0:56.0	Listen to Ridiculous History on the I-Heart Radio Appel Podcast or wherever you find
1:00.9	your favorite shows.
1:09.0	What if I told you, fairy tales had a darker side? He locked her in this dungeon, he ordered her to do this impossible thing he threatened to kill her multiple times
1:15.2	That's one where red and grandma are just dead
1:19.0	She takes the frog and with all her might throws him against the wall.
1:24.0	Join me, Miranda Hawkins, as we step into the twisted world of the Brothers Grem.
1:29.0	Listen to the Deep Dark Woods on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:35.0	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies,
1:41.0	history is riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
1:48.0	A production of I-Heart Radio. radio. Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. My name is Noll. They call me Ben. We're joined as always with our super producer Paul Mission Control Decant. Most importantly, you are you, you are here.
2:13.2	That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.
2:17.6	Let's start out with something just fun and easy and entirely uncomplicated. You guys like vaccines? Fun stuff. Really an
2:26.9	undivisive topic. People just love talking about it at dinner. They do, they do. I think it's fair to say without putting
2:36.1	all of us on the spot that we are, we are in general fans of vaccination.
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