The Worm Wars
Maintenance Phase
Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
4.8 • 16.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In 1998, a researcher rolled out an innovative approach to education. And in 2015, Methodology Twitter had a big fight about it.
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- The original 2004 paper
- The 2015 re-analysis
- The 2015 meta-analysis
- The Tanzania dissertation
- Doing Good Better
- Worm Wars: The Anthology
- Deworming Debunked
- WHO advises blanket anti-worming treatment for children despite lack of benefit
- Deworming Delusions? Mass Drug Administration In East African Schools
- Understanding Heterogeneity in the Impact of National Neglected Tropical Disease Control Programmes
- What Has Been Learned from the Deworming Replications: A Nonpartisan View
- Mass Deworming Programs in Middle Childhood and Adolescence
- Is it worth treating everyone who might get worms?
- New research debunks merits of global deworming programmes
- Should the WHO withdraw support for mass deworming?
- Why Don't People Take Their Medicine? Experimental Evidence from Kenya
- Dear journalists and policymakers: What you need to know about the Worm Wars
Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:11.7 | Give me two seconds, I need to close the windows. |
| 0:13.5 | I was like, it's so fucking hot in here and I was like, |
| 0:15.2 | I was trying to do it with the windows open, |
| 0:16.4 | but there's like, shit loads of bird sounds. |
| 0:18.2 | Yeah, totally. |
| 0:20.5 | Right, no birds! |
| 0:21.4 | No birds! No birds! No birds! |
| 0:34.9 | What have you got for us? |
| 0:38.1 | Hi everybody and welcome to Maintenance Phase, |
| 0:40.8 | the podcast that's crawling out onto the sidewalk |
| 0:44.0 | after a nice long rain. |
| 0:45.6 | Oh, it's a worm, it's a worm opener. |
| 0:47.9 | All I had was worms! |
| 0:49.3 | You had two words, worm wars. |
| 0:53.2 | Sure man, I'll take my inspiration from my morning walk the other day. |
| 0:57.1 | I like a hugs. |
| 0:58.4 | I'm Aubrey Gordon. |
| 0:59.8 | If you would like to support the show, |
| 1:02.0 | you can do that at patreon.com slash maintenance phase. |
| 1:05.5 | And if you want to just keep listening, just keep listening. |
| 1:08.2 | We're so happy to have you. |
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