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What we got wrong about GLP-1s

Search Engine

PJ Vogt

Business, Technology

4.85.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Search Engine is breaking its cowardly three-year silence on GLP-1s. We have been curious about them. We have been afraid of getting in trouble. We are no longer afraid. A conversation with Dr. Rachael Bedard about the many mistakes in how the media covered these drugs and what the research shows about their surprising effects. 

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0:00.0

Okay. Okay, so here's something.

0:26.6

Our show's motto.

0:27.8

No question too big, no question too small.

0:30.3

But there's some questions that I have on the show avoid it.

0:34.0

I'll give you an example.

0:35.4

GLP-1s.

0:38.3

Surge engine has barely acknowledged their existence, which is fine, except I read a lot about them,

0:44.0

I think a lot about them, and in my private life, I talk a lot about them.

0:48.3

But when they cannonballed into American culture, I had a lot of questions that I didn't want to ask in public.

0:55.6

In 2022 and 2023, GLP-1s were just, for me, too hot a topic. Going online felt like walking into a crazy

1:02.8

shootout in an old Western saloon, except instead of gunslingers, it was all fast-draw scolders.

1:09.0

There were scolders out there scolding celebrities for taking GLP-1s, but then they were getting scolded by other scolders for scolding celebrities.

1:16.6

Some people got scolded because they were taking the drugs despite not being fat enough, scolded for wanting to lose 15 pounds.

1:22.6

Rich people, of course, were getting scolded all over the place, accused of ripping GLP-1s out of the hands of the people who actually needed them.

1:30.7

It was scolding mayhem.

1:33.5

Meanwhile, offline, in real life,

1:36.0

20% of the people I knew just lost 15 to 40 pounds.

1:39.7

They seemed happy, and I had questions.

1:42.2

What did we really know about these drugs?

1:44.4

Were they helping people the way they claimed to?

1:46.3

What were the side effects?

1:48.3

I had questions, but I hate getting scolded.

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