
Pandora’s Lab
Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
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Narrado por:
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Greg Tremblay
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Paul A. Offit MD
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What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating - and significant - missteps.
Pandora's Lab takes us from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids as a major cause of death in the United States; from the rise of trans fats as the golden ingredient for tastier, cheaper food to the heart disease epidemic that followed; and from the cries to ban DDT for the sake of the environment to an epidemic-level rise in world malaria.
These are today's sins of science - as deplorable as mistaken ideas from the past such as advocating racial purity or using lobotomies as a cure for mental illness. These unwitting errors add up to seven lessons both cautionary and profound, explained by renowned author and speaker Paul A. Offit. Offit uses these lessons to investigate how we can separate good science from bad, using as case studies some of today's most controversial creations: e-cigarettes, GMOs, and drug treatments for ADHD.
For every "Aha!" moment that should have been an "Oh no", this book is an engrossing account of how science has been misused disastrously - and how we can learn to use its power for good.
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A very human story by a very believable human
- De Gary en 09-21-21
De: Sue Black
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This Is Your Brain on Food
- An Indispensable Guide to the Surprising Foods That Fight Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, OCD, ADHD, and More
- De: Uma Naidoo MD
- Narrado por: Uma Naidoo MD, Deepti Gupta
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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When it comes to diet, most people's concerns involve weight loss, fitness, cardiac health, and longevity. But what we eat affects more than our bodies; it also affects our brains. A triple threat in the food space, Dr. Uma Naidoo is a board-certified psychiatrist, nutrition specialist, and professionally trained chef. In This Is Your Brain on Food, she draws on cutting-edge research to explain the many ways in which food contributes to our mental health and shows how a sound diet can help treat and prevent a wide range of psychological and cognitive health issues.
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Waste of precious time.....
- De 100% en 03-08-21
De: Uma Naidoo MD
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Patient Zero
- A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
- De: Lydia Kang MD, Nate Pedersen
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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From the masters of storytelling-meets-science, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us. Written in the authors’ lively style, chapters include gripping medical stories about a particular disease or virus—smallpox, Bubonic plague, polio, HIV—that combine “Patient Zero” narratives, or the human stories behind outbreaks, with historical examinations of missteps, milestones, scientific theories, and more.
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I so VERY much wanted this to be good
- De 20eagle16 en 02-13-25
De: Lydia Kang MD, y otros
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Blitzed
- Drugs in the Third Reich
- De: Norman Ohler, Shaun Whiteside - translator, Claire Bloom - director
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers.
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The best "Gotterdammerung" book I have ever read.
- De James Carl Barsz, MD en 05-06-17
De: Norman Ohler, y otros
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- De: Jared Diamond
- Narrado por: Doug Ordunio
- Duración: 16 h y 20 m
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Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both literal and conceptual on every continent since the Ice Age, and examines societal advances such as writing, religion, government, and technology.
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Compelling pre-history and emergent history
- De Doug en 08-25-11
De: Jared Diamond
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Everything Is Tuberculosis
- The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
- De: John Green
- Narrado por: John Green
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
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In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, preventable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year. In Everything Is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story.
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Powerful, Heartbreaking, Informative, Inspiring, Hopeful.
- De Kendall R. Genier en 03-25-25
De: John Green
My only criticism is: during the chapter about nitrogen, Dr. Offit doesn’t mention that, while the phenomenon he discusses was a key element, it was Mao’s attempted Great Leap Forward that led to the atrocities that occurred there. A fantastic book about this time in recent history is The Fall and Rise of China.
Very very interesting, and challenges you to think for yourself
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Unfortunately, the author decided to take the scientific facts, which were the stars of his show, and have them take a back seat to his political stance and I had to suffer opinion and a stray from the scientific path he had so well planned for the previous chapters. After that detour, although I was still just as drawn in by the story he presented, we never quite got back on that original "path" of describing a seemingly benign discovery and how it ultimately led to a horrific or tragic outcome. I think those items were still presented, just not as elegantly.
This is still a fantastic book and I thoroughly enjoyed the facts and story that surrounded the history. I learned a lot. Regardless of your political slant, I believe you'll find his addition of a political charge as a distraction and a bit indulgent.
Great format and approach that loses its way
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Very good narrator
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Disturbing
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Amazing!
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An absolute gem.
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Timely: Use, misuse, and abuse of science.
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Thinking Book
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Interesting and thought provoking
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Essential reading
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