Each episode of Distillations podcast takes a deep-dive into a moment of science-related history in order to shed light on the present.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 4 days 11 hours 56 minutes
Exploring 'Health Equity Tourism'
In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a new public interest in health inequities research. With this new focus, there also has come new funding with many researchers and institutions clamoring to receive...
The Mothers of Gynecology
Episode 10 from the ‘Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race’ series
Correcting Race
Certain medical instruments have built-in methods of correcting for race. They’re based on the premise that Black bodies are inherently different from White bodies. The tool that measures kidney function, for example, underestimates how severe some...
Black Pills
In 2005 the FDA approved a pill to treat high blood preassure only in African Americans. This so-called miracle drug was named BiDil, and it became the first race-specific drug in the United States. It might sound like a good a good thing, but it had...
Bad Blood, Bad Science
The word “Tuskegee” has come to symbolize the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. It has become American lore. However, most people don’t know what actually happened in Macon County, Alabama, from 1932...
The African Burial Ground
Episode 5, Part 2 from the ‘Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race’ series.
Return, Rebury, Repatriate
Episode 5, Part 1 from the ‘Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race’ series.
The Vampire Project
In the 1990s a liberal population geneticist launched the Human Genome Diversity Project. The goal was to sequence the genomes of “isolated” and “disappearing” indigenous groups throughout the world. The project did not go as...
Keepers of the Flame
In the 1970s Barry Mehler started tracking race scientists and he noticed something funny: they all had the same funding source. One wealthy man was using his incredible resources to prop up any scientist he could find who would validate his white...