Episodes

  • #9: America’s Chernobyl (2 of 2)

    #9: America’s Chernobyl (2 of 2)
    Aug 8 2020

    Hanford is the most-polluted place in America. On our last episode, you heard about the nuclear plant’s largely-forgotten history–how it poisoned the people living downwind. On our season finale: a nuclear safety auditor tries to get it shut down, the …
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    57 mins
  • #8: America’s Chernobyl (1 of 2)

    #8: America’s Chernobyl (1 of 2)
    Jul 30 2020
    Richland, Washington is a company town that sprang up almost overnight in the desert of South Eastern Washington. Its employer is the federal government, and its product is plutonium. The Hanford nuclear site was one of the Manhattan Project sites, and it made the plutonium for the bomb that devastated Nagasaki. Here, the official history is one of scientific achievement, comfortable houses, and good-paying jobs. But it doesn’t include the story of what happened after the bomb was dropped — neither in Japan, nor right there in Washington State. On part one of our two-part season finale, we tell the largely-forgotten story of the most toxic place in America.
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    51 mins
  • Secondary Symptoms #8: “Return to Normalcy”

    Secondary Symptoms #8: “Return to Normalcy”
    Jul 27 2020

    The phrase “return to normalcy” has been thrown around a lot lately. It’s actually a phrase that was popularized in 1920, in the wake of the WW1 and the Spanish Flu. But, as with the Spanish Flu, “returning to normalcy” …
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • The Heroin Clinic (Rebroadcast)

    The Heroin Clinic (Rebroadcast)
    Jul 16 2020

    At Crosstown Clinic, doctors are turning addiction treatment on its head: they’re prescribing heroin-users the very drug they’re addicted to. This is the story of one clinic’s quest to remove the harms of addiction, without removing the addiction itself.

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    48 mins
  • Secondary Symptoms #7: Medical Imaginaries

    Secondary Symptoms #7: Medical Imaginaries
    Jul 8 2020

    Our whirlwind tour of the pharmaceutical industry ends this week. We’ve shown you the dysfunction, now we look for a better way. For some reason, the political vision is so curtailed here. Where is the manifesto for a new system? …
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    54 mins
  • #7: The Poison Paradigm

    #7: The Poison Paradigm
    Jul 3 2020

    On a daily basis, we are exposed to thousands of toxic chemicals. This is no accident; it is by design. They are everywhere – coating our consumer products, in our food packaging, being dumped into our lakes and sewers, and …
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    56 mins
  • Secondary Symptoms #6: Pandemic Fat Cats

    Secondary Symptoms #6: Pandemic Fat Cats
    Jun 25 2020

    There’s another coronavirus. This one, causing horrific swelling in cats, even killing them. Gilead Pharmacueticals might have a drug that can cure this feline coronavirus.  Yet, they’re not sharing that drug, possibly because they’re scared it might harm their chances …
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • #6: The Tamiflu Trials

    #6: The Tamiflu Trials
    Jun 17 2020

    Medical experts are rushing to see which drugs might help treat COVID-19. There are dozens of candidates: Remdesivir, Hydroxycloroquin, Actemra, Kevzara, Favipiravir, the list goes on. They better pick the right one; because billions of dollars of public money is …
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    59 mins