What is Homeopathy, Exactly?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Our resident debunker of nonsense, Maria Konnikova, returns to take on the billion-dollar homeopathy industry. Why aren't homeopathic remedies regulated in the United States? And what can their dubious history tell us about their effectiveness? Maria Konnikova is a contributing writer at the New Yorkerand the author of The Confidence Game. In the Spiel, watching CNN go haywire for a pretty banal accident on Capitol Hill. Today's sponsors: Green Mountain Coffee. Green Mountain Coffee is passionate about making a smoother-tasting cup. Try it today with $4 off, when you buy two boxes of most Green Mountain Coffee K-Cup pods at keurig.comwith code TRYGMC. Stamps.com. Buy and print official U.S. postage using your own computer and printer. Get a four-week trial plus postage and a digital scale when you go to Stamps.com, click on the Microphone at the top of the home page, and type in THEGIST. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:07.9	It's Wednesday, March 29, 2017 from Slated's Digest, I'm Mike Pesca.
0:12.9	Pulling out today by CBS shows the majority of Republicans believe Donald Trump's evidence-free claim
0:21.1	that Trump Tower was surveilled by the Obama administration.
0:25.4	A large majority, 74%, says it was likely or somewhat likely.
0:30.3	Though the FBI's found no evidence and the Trump administration directs all claims for such evidence to, I don't know, whatever's up next on the Fox News Channel.
0:38.3	Max Bout, Counselor Foreign Relations, Senior Fellow, Stonch, Conservative, Trump Opposition Figure, tweets,
0:44.3	see this is why Trump lies because his base buys it.
0:48.3	Actually, I think it's why he keeps lying.
0:51.3	He lies because that's what he has always done and there's never been much negative consequence.
0:58.3	Now that there is negative consequence, you would think there'd be pushback, but it's not coming from the people around him.
1:03.3	And it's not coming from all the people insorcelled by whatever he can say.
1:08.3	Therefore, he thinks it's a good strategy.
1:10.3	But it's not just that the Trump supporters buy the lies and think they're true.
1:15.3	Another polling firm, Morning Consult, did a poll where they took two Trump voters and also regular non-Trump voters, just everyone in general.
1:24.3	And they mentioned a bunch of scandals, right? A bunch of the stumbles, the flubs.
1:28.3	And they gauge how this affected Trump's popularity.
1:31.3	So for instance, they talked about Donald Trump allegedly discussing national security information pertaining to North Korea's nuclear program
1:39.3	at Mara Lago.
1:41.3	All voters disaffected their view of Trump negatively.
1:44.3	He went minus 27 in the polls for that one.
1:47.3	But with Trump voters, plus two, we liked the fact that he was at Mara Lago talking about North Korean nukes.
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