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.
If you’d like to keep up with the most recent news from this and other Pushkin podcasts, be sure to sign up for our email list at Pushkin.fm.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Basement Tapes
McDonald’s Broke My Heart
Mr. Hollowell Didn’t Like That
State v Johnson
The King of Tears
The Prime Minister and the Prof
The Foot Soldier of Birmingham
Miss Buchanan’s Period of Adjustment
The Road to Damascus
A Good Walk Spoiled
Introducing Revisionist History Season Two
The Satire Paradox
Generous Orthodoxy
Blame Game
Hallelujah
My Little Hundred Million
Food Fight
Carlos Doesn’t Remember
The Big Man Can't Shoot
Saigon, 1965
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Modern West
The Daily
In The Dark
Over My Dead Body
The Dropout
Broken Harts