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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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All Episodes

49:04

Ep 61 - Down by the Minamata Bay (Part 2)

The Deadly Dose ·

2022/03/02

Megan finishes out her two-part series on the Minamata Bay disaster. How does a massive environmental disaster in Minamata Japan end up manifesting in the same way for THREE generations, halfway across the world in Canada? Your guess is as good as ours.

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Ep 60 - Down by the Minamata Bay (Part 1)

The Deadly Dose ·

2022/02/23

Cat dancing fever, big corporation, Japan, and, of course, poisoning are the big themes of today's episode.

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Ep 59 - Justice Delayed is Justice Denied

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2022/02/16

We're getting straight to the point today. Today is a joint effort to tell the tragic story of Lauren Smith-Fields. If you know who Gabby Petito is, then you need to know who Lauren Smith-Fields is as well.

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Ep 58 - Always Spaghetti in Philadelphia

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2022/02/09

Let's (mentally) go back to the Depression Era Philadelphia. You're an Italian immigrant who has an ailing husband and you need an elixir to cure your husband. You seek out said elixir from your local apothecary, but your husband isn't cured - he's dead. This is the story of the Philadephia Poison Ring.

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Ep 57 - The Red Herring

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2022/02/02

Two loving parents rush their very sick baby to the hospital and one of them goes home, but the other goes to jail. All the clues point to anti-freeze poisoning, time and time again. But, is that all just a red herring...?

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92:36

Ep 56 - Beware the Ice Man

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2022/01/26

This story is anything but straightforward, so Megan is going to walk you through it step by step. But, grab your blankets and huddle in close to listen because the Ice Man is coming...

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Ep 55 - It's Elementary My Dear (Part 2)

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2022/01/19

This is the story you haven't heard about Theranos and the tech giant Elizabeth Holmes' fall from grace.

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Ep 54 - It's Elementary My Dear (Part 1)

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2022/01/12

This is the story of Elizabeth Holmes, the tech giant who fell from grace along with her once visionary company called Theranos. This isn't the story you heard so many times through the documentaries - we go deep to the root of what went down. Join us poison pals on this rollercoaster of a story.

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Ep 53 - The Red Queen Hypothesis

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2021/12/22

Poison pals it's the LAST episode of the year and we're ending on a banger. We are SO delighted to have Dillon Jones aka @dillonthebiologist on IG. He is San Diego's finest frog enthusiast and science communication expert on all things reptiles and amphibians. Dillon talks to us about poison dart frogs, how they evolved their jewel-toned colors and the psychedelic toads of the world.

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Ep 52 - Street Cleaning

The Deadly Dose ·

2021/12/15

It's street cleaning day poison pals and the darkest kind of street cleaning. We're talking all about the 2018 Fentanyl overdosing cases in San Diego. This story hits close to home, so we're bringing out all the PSA's on this one. We answer all questions on the San Diego drug party scene - what's fact, what's fiction, and what isn't widely known.

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50:17

Ep 51 - Re: Burn Pits (our editor's personal story)

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2021/12/08

Two episodes ago, we talked about burn pits. In that episode, we called on our listeners to email us if they knew anyone that was around or had been exposed to burn pits. We had no idea we were about to get an email so close to home. Today we have Braydon Griffith, our podcast editor, and co-producer, sharing his personal story of how he lost his father to cancer due to exposure to burn pits. Please listen to this episode and share Braydon's story with as many people as you can. Thank you, poison

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Ep 50 - Behind Closed Doors...

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2021/12/01

Hello listener, in today's episode, you'll be asked to participate. The facts will be relayed to you in this whodunnit case and YOU are juror #12. Can you provide a fair and balanced verdict? This case is about neighbors. How well do you know them or think you know them? Clearly not well enough.

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Ep 49 - We Didn't Start the Fire

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2021/11/17

If there is an episode we would hope you listened to, it's this one. Veteran's Day just passed and how often do we say, "Thank you for your service!" After today's episode, I hope we all think about that phrase in a different light and start or continue to do our part to advocate for our Veterans. So, today we're talking about burn pits. You probably haven't heard of burn pits and that's not on accident. Megan raises awareness about the horrors of burn pits and the silence that has surrounded burn

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Ep 48 - One Rock to Rule Them All

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2021/11/10

Harini brings us back with a bang to discuss the most famous scientist you never heard of, Dr. Clair Patterson. This episode starts out with one story and ends up in an entirely different story. The only hint as to what the story is about: it's elementary my dear Watson.

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Ep 47 - Door Locking Freaks

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2021/11/03

Do you believe in premonitions, in intuition, in angels or spirit guides? Have you ever followed a strong gut feeling that turned out to be right? This episode is all about near-death experiences and near misses.

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Ep 46 - Don't Look Up.

The Deadly Dose ·

2021/10/20

This episode features a very special guest, Harini's husband, Dev, and his firsthand encounter with a ghost in India. That's right, this episode is all about ghosts, demons, and folklore from South Asia. Listen at night if you dare, but whatever you do...don't.look.up.

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Ep 45 - Sleep Tight Don't Let the Demons Bite

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2021/10/13

You're in bed, tucked snug underneath the covers, and you slip into a dreamless slumber, when all of a sudden you hear a rustle in the corner. Your eyes fly awake and you see something crawling towards your bed...closer...closer...but no matter how hard you try, you can't move your body. The figure is on your bed now, and right when you think it is all over, you wake up. This episode is all about the horrors and science of sleep paralysis. Brace yourselves, poison pals, it's going to be a sleepless

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Ep 44 - Saved by the Bell!

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2021/10/06

What if your last breath was only an illusion? What if your family, your friends, the coroner even, all thought you were dead, so they bury you...alive. Your only hope now is to be saved by the bell.

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Ep 43 - Fact or Fodder?

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2021/09/29

Wine is sloshing around in your chalice, the bard is singing in the square, and the artist is painting his newest commissioned work by the powerful Borgia family. And all of the above is surrounded by a lifestyle of poisoning one's enemies to reach the top, but are the Borgias really as notorious for poisoning as the world wants us to think?

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Ep 42 - The Radioactive Russian

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2021/09/22

Picture this, it's 2006, Chris Brown is playing on your iPod nano, and across the pond, in London, England a Russian man is being assassinated with the deadliest element on the periodic table.

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