17 episodes
Death by Ignorance Allan Walls
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- Health & Fitness
This podcast is about the truth.
In each episode I sweep away the lies, propaganda, and pseudoscience to take a cold hard look at the realities of life. Using plain language (where possible), I walk you through a medical, social, or political phenomenon, usually one that is not well known or is poorly understood, and share with you what I have learned.
I avoid the use of profanity but caution listeners that some of the concepts and circumstances described are disturbing and may not be appropriate for younger listeners.
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Whoops! Wrong Leg!
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A chilling discussion about modern day medical errors and what you can do to help protect yourself. -
A Trashcan Full of Plutonium
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Nuclear waste is piling up all over our country. It will still be deadly centuries from now. We have a place to put it. It is the best possible place, the safest place, and it has been sitting empty for decades while the plutonium made in our nuclear reactors sits in insanely dangerous holding sites around the country.
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All Fall Down
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We are sitting on a time bomb. Drowning in debt and dangerously overextended, we are one more bubble-burst away from the financial crisis which could trigger a global economic collapse. We look at how such a collapse will likely destroy the lives of millions of unsuspecting Americans - in the blink of an eye.
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E. coli Burgers
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The very real danger of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and our ongoing failure to take control of the overuse and misuse of antibiotics on our planet.
For more reading, consider the following sources:
Alexander Fleming Biography
Biography.com (website) August 7, 2019
Antibiotic Resistance
Position paper
World Health Organization, February 5, 2018
Prevalence of Antibiotic-Resistant E. coli in Retail Chicken: Comparing Conventional, Organic, Kosher, and Raised without Antibiotics. Version 2.
Jack M. Millman et al. in F1000Research, Vol. 2, Article No. 155. Published online September 2, 2013.
Multidrug-Resistant and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Hog Slaughter and Processing Plant Workers and Their Community in North Carolina (USA).
Ricardo Castillo Neyra et al. in Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 122, No. 5, pages 471–477; May 2014.
Livestock-Associated Staphylococcus aureus: The United States Experience.
Tara C. Smith in PLOS Pathogens, Vol. 11, No. 2, Article No. e1004564; February 5, 2015.
Detection of Airborne Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Inside and Downwind of a Swine Building, and in Animal Feed: Potential Occupational, Animal Health, and Environmental Implications.
Dwight D. Ferguson et al. in Journal of Agromedicine, Vol. 21, No. 2, pages 149–153; 2016.
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Pigs and Farm Workers on Conventional and Antibiotic-Free Swine Farms in the USA.
Tara C. Smith et al. in PLOS ONE, Vol. 8, No. 5, Article No. e63704; May 7, 2013.
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Facebook and the Anti-Vax Movement
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An attempt to make sense of the anti-vaccination movement. We look at the origins of the movement, their beliefs, and how a society can give birth to a movement like this.
To read the original MMR-autism paper...https://briandeer.com/mmr/lancet-paper.pdf
To read the CDC/Danish study...https://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/2727726/measles-mumps-rubella-vaccination-autism-nationwide-cohort-study
Another solid paper refuting the Wakefield fraud...https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24814559
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Venereal Disease
Welcome to Episode 6 of Death by Ignorance!
This week we will be taking on Sexually Transmitted Diseases - not literally, of course. We'll look into a little of the history and get you up to date on what's out there, before your date does, if you catch my drift. Everything was going reasonably well until I started looking at the state of sex education in American schools. I kept the rant as short as possible, but I decided not to take it out. You should know what is going on in schools - it will make you very angry.
Here is a link to the CDC's most recent update on the diseases, treatments, and a ton of other very useful information. https://www.cdc.gov/std/default.htm
This CDC website links to a host of other valuable educational resources.
The information regarding the current state of sex education was taken from an article written by Dr. Justin Lehmiller and it is available here...https://www.lehmiller.com/blog/2019/3/18/the-state-of-sex-education-in-the-united-states-in-2019
Some of the historical stories were taken from this article, published in the online magazine Aeon... https://aeon.co/essays/getting-down-and-medieval-the-sex-lives-of-the-middle-ages
If you do not read this publication already, I strongly recommend you give it a try!
Thanks for listening, have a good day, and wash your hands before and after. Got it?
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