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Whiskey & Cream: Episode XX Whiskey & Cream Podcast with Ari Shapiro

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Whiskey & Cream for June 19th, 2021


Host: Ari Shapiro



0:38-8:15: ""Canada and Islamophobia: Hypocrisy lives here"



How quickly so many have forgotten that a deranged, hate-filled gunman stormed a Quebec City mosque back in January 2017 and brutally murdered six men while injuring 19 others, splintering a close-knit Muslim-Canadian community already grappling with xenophobic prejudice in their neighbourhoods. By March of that year, a Liberal MP (Iqra Khalid) tabled a crucial parliamentary motion following the attack that directly condemned the "fear of Islam" as a form of religious discrimination and source of racism across Canada. Although Motion 103 was subsequently adopted and heralded as a progressive triumph of social and cultural solidarity over political grandstanding, it also resulted in 91 Conservative and Bloc Quebecois members voting against it, including the current leader of the opposition Erin O'Toole.


Karim Kanji is a celebrated political and cultural podcaster whose "Welcome To The Music" show has earned him legions of fans who appreciate his disarming candor and real honesty with guests. For him, the London, Ontario attack on a Muslim family that left a nine-year old boy orphaned remains a powerfully tragic reminder that Islamophobia is alive and well in a country that's always been high on good intentions and low on political results - especially when it comes to growing communities and embracing the multicultural nature of this country.



8:21-15:45: "A disease does not fully exist in America until it has a business model"



Biogen's Aduhelm has arrived like a bolt out of the blue and changed the way the world is looking at Alzheimer's disease. Suddenly, a horrific condition which has had little or no medical progress in treatment for decades and is the sixth leading killer in the United States has met its match and been challenged by the marvels of a pandemic world where science lifts us away from sheer futility and into the realm of endless possibility. However, three members of the FDA's advisory board resigned in protest when it was discovered that the drug had been approved for far broader use and without any substantial consultation. In fact, 10 out of their 11 members voted to reject the application and yet here we are. At $56,000 a year for treatment that doesn't even begin to address how badly a burden it will place on medicare or socialized medicine if you factor in physician, imaging and infusion center expenses that will more than double the overall cost. Many industry experts believe it's only worth around $8,000 in raw manufactured costs, leading many to seriously wonder: is this the latest snake oil from big pharma?


Dr. Jason Karlawish is an American physician and researcher in the field of bioethics, aging and the neurosciences. He's also written a series of critically-acclaimed books on the subject, including: Open Wound, Treating Dementia, and The Problem With Alzheimer's - How Science, Culture and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It. For him, it all comes down to trusting and believing in medical regulatory agencies that have traditionally held the best interests of their patients in mind well before aggrandizing their voracious need for profits, and to have government protect their citizens from the exploitation of big pharma and the scourge of false hope.



15:23-21:02: "Say it ain't so, Robby: the gradual extinction of the modern day baseball hero"



To be banned from Major League Baseball is a terrible thing - especially considering how morally, ethically and existentially the game has gone to rot. Fairly or not, the list of "undesirables" includes Shoeless Joe Jackson for dubiously cheating, Pete Rose for unrepentant gambling, Marge Schott for virulent racism, and...

Whiskey & Cream for June 19th, 2021


Host: Ari Shapiro



0:38-8:15: ""Canada and Islamophobia: Hypocrisy lives here"



How quickly so many have forgotten that a deranged, hate-filled gunman stormed a Quebec City mosque back in January 2017 and brutally murdered six men while injuring 19 others, splintering a close-knit Muslim-Canadian community already grappling with xenophobic prejudice in their neighbourhoods. By March of that year, a Liberal MP (Iqra Khalid) tabled a crucial parliamentary motion following the attack that directly condemned the "fear of Islam" as a form of religious discrimination and source of racism across Canada. Although Motion 103 was subsequently adopted and heralded as a progressive triumph of social and cultural solidarity over political grandstanding, it also resulted in 91 Conservative and Bloc Quebecois members voting against it, including the current leader of the opposition Erin O'Toole.


Karim Kanji is a celebrated political and cultural podcaster whose "Welcome To The Music" show has earned him legions of fans who appreciate his disarming candor and real honesty with guests. For him, the London, Ontario attack on a Muslim family that left a nine-year old boy orphaned remains a powerfully tragic reminder that Islamophobia is alive and well in a country that's always been high on good intentions and low on political results - especially when it comes to growing communities and embracing the multicultural nature of this country.



8:21-15:45: "A disease does not fully exist in America until it has a business model"



Biogen's Aduhelm has arrived like a bolt out of the blue and changed the way the world is looking at Alzheimer's disease. Suddenly, a horrific condition which has had little or no medical progress in treatment for decades and is the sixth leading killer in the United States has met its match and been challenged by the marvels of a pandemic world where science lifts us away from sheer futility and into the realm of endless possibility. However, three members of the FDA's advisory board resigned in protest when it was discovered that the drug had been approved for far broader use and without any substantial consultation. In fact, 10 out of their 11 members voted to reject the application and yet here we are. At $56,000 a year for treatment that doesn't even begin to address how badly a burden it will place on medicare or socialized medicine if you factor in physician, imaging and infusion center expenses that will more than double the overall cost. Many industry experts believe it's only worth around $8,000 in raw manufactured costs, leading many to seriously wonder: is this the latest snake oil from big pharma?


Dr. Jason Karlawish is an American physician and researcher in the field of bioethics, aging and the neurosciences. He's also written a series of critically-acclaimed books on the subject, including: Open Wound, Treating Dementia, and The Problem With Alzheimer's - How Science, Culture and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It. For him, it all comes down to trusting and believing in medical regulatory agencies that have traditionally held the best interests of their patients in mind well before aggrandizing their voracious need for profits, and to have government protect their citizens from the exploitation of big pharma and the scourge of false hope.



15:23-21:02: "Say it ain't so, Robby: the gradual extinction of the modern day baseball hero"



To be banned from Major League Baseball is a terrible thing - especially considering how morally, ethically and existentially the game has gone to rot. Fairly or not, the list of "undesirables" includes Shoeless Joe Jackson for dubiously cheating, Pete Rose for unrepentant gambling, Marge Schott for virulent racism, and...

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