Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast is a deep dive into the “overlooked and misunderstood”

Malcom Gladwell, bestselling author of Outliers and journalist at the New Yorker for 27 years, sets things straight in Revisionist History. Gladwell reexamines events, people, and ideas that he argues are “overlooked or misunderstood” — through a playful and witty combination of anecdote, argument, and research.

How ethical are (voluntary) medical experiments? In the 10th episode of the seventh season of Revisionist History, The Rise of the Guinea Pigs, Gladwell invites guests to discuss the ethics of medical experiments even when the subjects willingly volunteer to be tested. They follow the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, an experiment run by Ansel Keys during WWII to test the effects of thiamine deficiency, and explore to what extent an “informed decision” to participate is actually informed. It begs the question: Is it still an autonomous decision if you’re under societal pressure to better humanity?

WHERE TO LISTEN- You can find Revisionist History onSpotify,Google or Apple Podcasts,YouTube, and onPushkin.