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Cited Podcast

Experts shape our world. Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. In every big story, you’ll find one; you’ll find a researcher, scientist, engineer, planner, policy wonk, data nerd, bureaucrat, regulator, intellectual, or pseudo-intellectual. Their ideas are often opaque, unrecognized, and difficult to understand. Some of them like it that way. On Cited, we reveal their hidden stories.

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Episode #1: The (ir)Rational Mob

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2024/06/24

Every protest movement has been dismissed as a mere ‘mindless mob,’ caught in a psychological frenzy. Where did this idea come from, and why does it last? The post Episode #1: The (ir)Rational Mob appeared first on Cited Podcast.

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Introducing: The Rationality Wars (Season Trailer)

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2024/06/17

The Rationality Wars tells stories about the political and intellectual battles to define rationality and irrationality. Behind every definition of rationality, somebody benefits, and somebody is… The post Introducing: The Rationality Wars (Season Trailer) appeared first on Cited Podcast.

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#9: America’s Chernobyl (2 of 2)

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2020/08/08

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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#8: America’s Chernobyl (1 of 2)

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2020/07/30

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

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Secondary Symptoms #8: “Return to Normalcy”

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2020/07/27

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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The Heroin Clinic (Rebroadcast)

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2020/07/16

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.———-PROGRAMMING …

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Secondary Symptoms #7: Medical Imaginaries

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2020/07/08

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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#7: The Poison Paradigm

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2020/07/03

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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Secondary Symptoms #6: Pandemic Fat Cats

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2020/06/25

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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#6: The Tamiflu Trials

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2020/06/17

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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What are Canadian Police (Still) Trying to Hide?...

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2020/06/12

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis, millions of protesters around the world have marched against racism and police violence. In Canada, we know that Indigenous and Black bodies are incarcerated at far higher rates than their white …

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Secondary Symptoms #5: I Can’t Breathe

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2020/06/06

The brutal public lynching of George Floyd has sparked a rebellion against police violence and systematic racism. The mostly peaceful protests are courageously rising up, while the police respond with unrelenting force. This all-out war against the American people tells …

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The Battle of Buxton (Rebroadcast)

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2020/05/27

The town of Buxton, North Carolina loves their lighthouse. But in the 1970s, the ocean threatened to swallow it up. For the next three decades, they fought an intense political battle over what to do. Fight back against the forces …

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Secondary Symptoms #4: The Covid Kings

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2020/05/23

This week, we put the pieces together and solve a different kind of mystery at the heart of Tiger King. I liked the show so much because it felt like the escapism I needed during a brutal pandemic. But actually, …

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#5: Made of Corn

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2020/05/20

When genetically modified corn was found in the highlands of Mexico, Indigenous campesino groups took to the streets to protect their cultural heritage, setting off a 20-year legal saga. ———-PROGRAMMING NOTE———- This two of our series on genetically modified maize. …

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#4: Modifying Maize

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2020/05/13

How the accidental finding of genetically modified corn in the highlands of Mexico set off a twenty-year battle over scientific methods, academic freedom, Indigenous rights, environmental law and international trade. Part one of two. ———-MORE———- This episode has loads more …

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Secondary Symptoms #3: Pandemic Amnesia

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2020/05/07

Last time we opened up too fast, we paid dearly. There were celebratory parades when Americans thought the 1918 Spanish Flu was over and done with. Unfortunately, the second wave was even worse. So this week on Secondary Symptoms, the …

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#3: The Pavillion

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2020/05/06

Expo 1967 was the centrepiece of Canada’s 100th birthday. In a country of only 20 million, 50 million people attended Expo ’67. Amid the crowds and the pageantry, one building stood out. The Indians of Canada Pavilion. This was more than a tall glass tipi. It revealed (at least partly) Canada’s sordid colonial history. The post #3: The Pavillion appeared first on Cited Podcast.

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#3: The Pavilion

Cited Podcast ·

2020/05/06

Expo 1967 was the centrepiece of Canada’s 100th birthday. In a country of only 20 million, 50 million people attended Expo ’67. Amid the crowds and the pageantry, one building stood out. The Indians of Canada Pavilion. This was more …

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#2: Repeat After Me

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2020/05/05

In 2011, an American psychologist named Daryl Bem proved the impossible. He showed that precognition — the ability to sense the future — is real. His study was explosive, and shook the very foundations of psychology.

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