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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

Podcast: Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

Episode: What is snake oil? | STUFF THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW

Published on June 19, 2023

Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!

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Pale Rider

by Laura Spinney

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well Kristen Rogers who wrote this consulted with Laura spinney who is an author she wrote pale writer the Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it changed the world and there's this quote here that I just wanted to bring up because I think it just speaks to this whole episode

The hosts mention this book and its author, quoting from it to support their point about people needing a sense of control during afflictions.

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The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

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you know one of the primary motivating factors for the creation of the FDA was a book a quite disturbing book about stockyards in Chicago it was called the jungle written by a guy named Upton Sinclair and it shed a lot of light on things people would rather not think about

The hosts mention this book as a primary motivating factor for the creation of the FDA, describing its topic and author.

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