The Minnesota Starvation Experiment could never be done today. No scientist could get permission to starve 36 healthy people for close to a year. But why? Revisionist History tries to follow the strange logic that governs our thinking about medical experiments.
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Dr. Rock’s Taxonomy
The Standard Case
Good Old Boys
Tempest in a Teacup
The Tortoise and the Hare
Puzzle Rush
Introducing Revisionist History Season Four
Revisionist History Presents: Rick Rubin
Analysis, Parapraxis, Elvis
Strong Verbs, Short Sentences
The Imaginary Crimes of Margit Hamosh
Malcolm Gladwell's 12 Rules for Life
The Hug Heard Round the World
General Chapman’s Last Stand
Free Brian Williams
A Polite Word for Liar
Burden of Proof
Divide and Conquer
Malcolm Gladwell debates Adam Grant
Introducing Revisionist History Season Three
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It is Free
The Modern West
The Daily
In The Dark
Over My Dead Body
The Dropout
Broken Harts