The Truth About Vitamin C

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

New Yorker staff writer Maria Konnikova returns to play "Is That Bullshit?" This week, the persistent nutritional myth about vitamin C. The actual vitamin, not the singer. Maria's most recent book is The Confidence Game. Plus, one of Barack Obama's dreams has finally been realized: a plain white t-shirt store is open in Hawaii. Sponsors: ZipRecruiter. Post your job listing to all the top job sites with a single click. Try it for free by going to ZipRecruiter.com/gist. And Blue Apron. Blue Apron's meal kits are delivered right to your door and make cooking at home easy. Get your first three meals free by going to BlueApron.com/gist. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at Slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:07.7	It's Monday, January 23, 2017, from Slate, it's the gist I might pesca.
0:13.0	It is day four of the Trump presidency, or to hear White House spokesman Sean Spicer tell it.
0:18.5	It's not.
0:19.5	It's day one, working day one here.
0:22.0	Spice was roundly criticized for rounding up Trump's inaugural numbers, rounding down Obama's Metro rides.
0:29.0	Falsehoods chucktied called them.
0:31.6	I can think of another one syllable word for that.
0:34.7	Rhymes with Russian spies, extra long ties.
0:39.9	Anyway, I have a theory about Spicer.
0:42.5	The guy has a problem, possibly a disorder.
0:45.4	We shouldn't excoriate him.
0:46.8	We should sympathize.
0:48.5	Sean Spicer suffers from enumeracy.
0:52.3	Millions of Americans do.
0:54.7	Or as they would tell you, bebillians.
0:57.9	It shows up when reporting on the size of crowds, or the duration of standing ovation.
1:04.7	They gave him a five minute standing ovation at the end.
1:07.9	Spicer wouldn't tell a reporter what the unemployment number was because it's a number.
1:14.9	His answer spoke of an attitude towards numbers like Frankenstein has towards fire.
1:21.4	But what do you expect?
1:22.9	Here's a guy whose very job is owed to the fact that his boss won an election
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