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PODCAST

The Deadly Dose

Harini Bhat & Megan Gesner

A pharmacist and her longtime friend walk into a bar. What emerges is a dotty little science podcast, with a taste for toxicology. Poisons, medical mysteries, political assassinations, healing rituals, environmental disasters, pandemics & more - nothing is off the lab table here. This is the science of storytelling at its finest.

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44:27

(Encore ) Ep 81 - Terrifyingly Toxic Glow

The Deadly Dose ·

2022/07/27

In this week's episode, Harini's rewind episode is our original Ep. 4. When the cover of darkness descends, a curiously beautiful and luminescent substance lit up the world in its elemental glow. Radium-224 became a worldwide obsession virtually overnight and was literally the most coveted commodity in the 1920s, but at a dear cost. This is the story of The Radium Girls.

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(Encore) Ep 80 - Sweet Dorothea

The Deadly Dose ·

2022/07/21

In this episode, Megan pays homage to her home city of Sacramento, CA by detailing the life and crimes of the serial poisoner, Dorothea Puente. Puente came to notoriety in the late 1980s when a welfare check-up on a missing tenant led to the discovery of seven bodies in her yard, thus christening her home as the infamous Murder House in Sacramento. How did this “feeble old woman” (as the media would have you believe) commit such sinister misdeeds? Tune in to find out!

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58:55

Ep 79 - Don't Drink the Kool-Aid!

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2022/07/13

REWIND: in honor of our new chapter as The Deadly Dose, we are re-recording some of our old, but gold episodes starting with our original Ep. 2. Harini takes you back in time with her and to Jonestown, Guyana to share the infamous tale of Reverend Jim Jones and The People's Temple cult. You can listen, but whatever you do, just don't drink the Kool-Aid!

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Ep 78 - Devil's Snare

The Deadly Dose ·

2022/07/06

In this episode, Megan debunks the portrayal of jimson weed in The Sinner Season 2. Though a small feature in the season, it leaves a lasting impression, violently incapacitating and killing two grown adults within minutes in the first episode. While the reality of this nightshade’s toxicity is a lot less frightening than the show would like you to believe, it remains an incredibly compelling plant. Tune in to find out more about this prolific, gorgeous weed that can simultaneously cure and

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Ep 77 - Drops of Knowledge

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2022/06/29

In the late summer of 1976, a mysterious disease swept through the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hundreds of members of the American Legion, which was holding its annual convention within the Bellevue-Stratford, and several unaffiliated civilians fell ill. The disease took 29 lives. The outbreak was an epidemiological mystery that stumped the CDC for months. What was causing these illnesses and where in the hotel was it coming from? Join us in Epidemiology 101 as Harini

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61:18

Ep. 76 – Go to Sleep, Count Some Sheep…

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2022/06/22

Melatonin has become an increasingly popular supplement used by both adults and children. For some children, the ingestion of melatonin is completely accidental. And according to a recent report published by the CDC, accidental pediatric ingestions of melatonin have increased by over 500% in the last decade. In this episode, Megan provides an overview of the CDC’s concerns and the US’s relationship with the extremely popular endogenous hormone/ sleep aid, melatonin.

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47:00

Ep 75 - Dropping like Flies

The Deadly Dose ·

2022/06/15

With only about a dozen specialists in the United States, forensic entomology is still a relatively new field of forensic science, but it is damn useful. Dropping like flies is an ironic phrase when in reality, flies are bringing new life to cold cases & solving what both machines & humans couldn’t.

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Ep 74 - Glamping Gone Wrong

The Deadly Dose ·

2022/06/01

POV: the sun is radiating down on you, warming your skin while you trek through a large expanse of meadow. To your right is the majestic monolith of El Capitan and overhead you hear the birds singing their morning songs to one another. At the end of the evening, you come home to the luxury of your glamping site and snuggle into bed with the warmth of blankets around you and a soft pillow to rest your head. But, little do you know that something sinister lurks beneath the wooden floorboards of your

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Ep 73 - The Afrin Affair

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2022/05/25

This story is the infamous Afrin Affair of 1991. An esteemed scientist, Dr. Barry Van Winkle, is on the verge of skyrocketing his career when he gets mysteriously targeted, but by who and why?

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Ep 72 - Jim v. Rattlesnake

The Deadly Dose ·

2022/05/18

Harini retells an episode of "I Survived" where a man in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains is picking blueberries under a warm spring sun when he encounters an unwanted surprise.

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Ep 71 - The Eagle has Landed

The Deadly Dose ·

2022/05/11

Bald eagles are making the front page and not in a good way, unfortunately. More than 50% of the bald eagle population is poisoned with lead and we're diving deep into how and why.

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Ep 70 - The Martha Mitchell Effect

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2022/05/04

Today's episode is about a woman you've probably never heard of, but absolutely should. Her story involves glamour, kidnapping, drugs, a perilous secret, and even the President of the United States. Let us tell you about Martha Mitchell and how her name became synonymous with a term in a psychology book.

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59:04

Ep 69 - Unhilled and Unhinged!

The Deadly Dose ·

2022/04/27

We just *might* ruin your favorite food on today's episode. When you think of the one vegetable that is a staple in the majority of diets culturally around the world, what vegetable do you think of? The one we gobble up voraciously during Thanksgiving, that forms soft pillows under pasta sauce or douse with ketchup at our local bar? The very humble potato just got a little more sinister...

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Ep 68 - Rhymes with Beth

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2022/04/20

We're cutting to the chase. This story is the real life Breaking Bad. Two professors work together to make meth in their chem lab. But, it's so much more than that...

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Ep 67 - Cannaba Cannadioid

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2022/04/13

Weed gummy bears, brownies, and candy bars come in the most beautiful, colorful packaging - so appealing that more toddlers than ever are getting into their parents' weed stash. Megan discusses the rise in cannabis intoxication in children.

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53:30

Ep 66 - A Dance with Death

The Deadly Dose ·

2022/04/06

POV: you are a young woman in the Victorian era and you just bought the most beautiful green dress for the masquerade ball this Friday. Very Bridgerton vibes. Throw away those rose-colored glasses, and put on your green-colored glasses. Actually, you have no choice in the matter because you have arsenic poisoning from the dress you're wearing. Your skin is green, your fluids are green, and all you see is green.

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Ep 65 - Recap (Burn Pits, Lauren-Smith Fields, Sunny...

The Deadly Dose ·

2022/03/30

With 66 episodes and counting, we thought it was time for an update on past episodes that may not have been fully fleshed out or resolved at the time we recorded them.

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Ep 64 - OxyCoffin Part 3

The Deadly Dose ·

2022/03/23

Harini dives deep with a three-part series on the history of opium, the start of the modern epidemic with Oxycontin, Purdue Pharma, and the Sackler family. Everything you ever wanted to know about opioids and the epidemic is going to be told to you right now.

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Ep 63 - OxyCoffin Part 2

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2022/03/16

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Ep 62 - Oxycoffin (Part 1)

The Deadly Dose ·

2022/03/09

Who would ever think that a beautiful red flower could lead to a global epidemic that kills people every minute of every day?

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