Maintenance Phase
Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
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APR 4, 2024
Jamie Oliver
In the 2000s, Jamie Oliver made a big splash with his work reforming kids’ meals in the UK and US. Was his work wicked slammin’, or just proper rustic?
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- Buy Aubrey's book
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Links!
- BBC Profile - Jamie Oliver
- Jamie Oliver Puts America's Diet on a Diet
- All The Times Jamie Oliver Made Everyone Angry
- Unpacking School Lunch: Understanding the Hidden Politics of School Food
- A brief history of school meals in the UK
- Turkey Twizzlers: A Complete History
- Marcus Rashford Is Fighting the Government on Free School Meals. He’s Also Fighting Jamie Oliver’s Legacy
- Has Jamie Bitten off More Than He Can Chew?
- Jamie Oliver, you haven’t tasted real poverty
- Jamie Oliver’s campaign against childhood obesity has classist undertones
- Jamie’s jerk rice is a recipe for disaster
Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!
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MAR 7, 2024
COVID Conspiracies
What was missing from America's pandemic response? According to the internet, a sunshine vitamin, a malaria treatment and a whole lot of horse paste.
Thanks to Health Nerd (Substack) for helping us fact-check this episode! And thanks to Abby Mahler (Twitter, Tiktok) for help with the research on hydroxychloroquine!
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- Hear bonus episodes on Patreon
- Donate on PayPal
- Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more
- Buy Aubrey's book
- Listen to Mike's other podcast
Links:
- How Musk Sold MAGA on HCQ
- Prominent Anti-Vaxxer’s Snake Oil Store Has a Propaganda Outlet
- Nine COVID-19 Myths That Just Won’t Go Away
- Disinformation and coronavirus
- COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Discussion on Twitter
- Pain in the Nation
- Are patients with hypertension and diabetes mellitus at increased risk for COVID-19 infection?
- Conspiracy theories as barriers to controlling the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.
- Vaccines vs. vitamins: COVID misinformation roils the worlds of wellness and nutrition
- A Decisive Verdict on Vitamin D Supplementation
- Why were Twitter Users Obsessed with Vitamin D during the first year of the pandemic?
- Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It
- The Truth about Vitamin D and COVID-19
- The Strange and Twisted Tale of Hydroxychloroquine
- Is Ivermectin for Covid-19 Based on Fraudulent Research?
Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!
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OCT 10, 2023
Ozempic
Ozempic is being hailed as “the end of the Obesity Epidemic.” This week, Mike and Aubrey dig through the sensational claims. But will they make it past the caveats?
Links:
- How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic
- The Discovery and Development of Liraglutide and Semaglutide
- Ozempic and Wegovy maker courts prominent Black leaders to get Medicare's favor
- Insurers clamping down on doctors who prescribe Ozempic for weight loss
- Ozempic prescriptions can be easy to get online. Its popularity for weight loss is hurting those who need it most
- Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists in patients with type 2 diabetes: real-world evidence from a Mediterranean area
- Semaglutide in Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction and Obesity
- Real-world weight change, adherence, and discontinuation among patients with type 2 diabetes initiating glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists in the UK
- Safety of Semaglutide
- Semaglutide for the treatment of overweight and obesity: A review
- Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adolescents with Obesity
- Semaglutide 2.4 mg for the Treatment of Obesity: Key Elements of the STEP Trials 1 to 5
- Association of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist Use With Risk of Gallbladder and Biliary Diseases
- Real-World Adherence and Discontinuation of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients in the United States
- Medications and conditions associated with weight loss in patients prescribed semaglutide based on real-world data
Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!
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SEP 12, 2023
"Soy Boys"
How a plant-based pejorative went from an alt-right burn to a core concern of mainstream Republicans.
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- Hear bonus episodes on Patreon
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- Buy Aubrey's book
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Links!
- Joe Explains the Term "Soy Boy" to Donnell Rawlings
- Alex Jones Gay Bomb Rant
- Soyboys and Sensitivity: Mocking Meat Avoidance from Punch to Twitter
- How the alt-right uses milk to promote white supremacy
- Men's Health 2009 piece
- Neither soy nor isoflavone intake affects male reproductive hormones
- A Brief History of Conservatives Using Tofu-Eating as an Insult
- The Soy Conspiracy
- Alex Jones’ Protegé, Paul Joseph Watson, Is About to Steal His Crackpot Crown
- Why Men Think Plant-Based Meat Will Turn Them Into Women
- Stangle: Impossible burgers are made of what?
- Plant-based meat and the knock-down, drag-out fight for the American diet
- Why Republicans Can’t Stop Talking About Masculinity
- Real American men and the liberal war on meat
- “The Great Replacement:” An Explainer
Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!
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AUG 1, 2023
RFK Jr. and The Mainstreaming Of The Anti-Vaxx Movement
Join us for a 75 minute answer to a 5 word question: Is there mercury in vaccines?
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Links!
- Paul Offit’s “Autism's False Prophets”
- Peter Hotez’s “The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science”
- Seth Mnookin’s “The Panic Virus”
- Jonathan M. Berman’s “Anti-vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement”
- Steve Silberman’s “Neurotribes”
- Transcript of the Simpsonwood meeting
- A Kennedy’s Crusade Against Covid Vaccines Anguishes Family and Friends
- Immunizations and Autism: A Review of the Literature
- CDC Studies on Thimerosal in Vaccines
- RFK Jr’s 2005 article on mercury and vaccines
- RFK Jr.’s Inside Job
- Vast Majority of Americans Say Benefits of Childhood Vaccines Outweigh Risks
- Correcting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- When Vaccine Injury Claims Go to Court
- Vaccine Compensation Hearing Decision
Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!
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