Science, Quickly Scientific American

Your Health Quickly is a very informative show, well researched, and firmly rooted in the latest scientific findings. The show producers are very responsive to listener input. Audio quality of recent episode was great.

The new format is terrible. The writing is inaccurate and childish. The show tries to be hip by talking about topics completely outside their lane. Armchair science at its worst. Also, the injection of politics into science is completely inappropriate, especially when the politics is so amateurish and out of touch.

But what finally made me delete the feed was just how racist it has become. The episode on the Thai music composer was the epitome. Instead of introducing a form of music that most people weren’t exposed to and delving into it, the host for some reason kept making racist comments and stereotypes about the current musical landscape. On and on. I really wonder how the artist “featured” felt about having the episode about them turned into a self-indulgent racist diatribe. I know I would be peeved if it happened to me.

I don’t like to change the format. They’re going for cuteness. Silly Hass happiness. Talking down to the listener. Too much giggling. Especially in this last episode about animal communication. I’ll keep listening. But hope it finds a balance between what it was, and what it has become.