Free Forum with Terrence McNally
Hosted by Terrence McNally · Terrence McNally
4.6from 31 ratings
- 738
- Episodes
- 121
- Transcribed
- 31
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2007
- First episode
About Free Forum with Terrence McNally
Features conversations with people who offer pieces of the puzzle of “a world that just might work” -- provocative approaches to business, environment, health, science, politics, media and culture. Guests have included Michael Lewis, Ken Burns, Arianna Huffington, Paul Krugman, Temple Grandin, Bill Maher, Cornel West, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Norman Lear. [http://terrencemcnally.net]
- Publisher
- Terrence McNally
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 13 Sept 2007
- Latest episode
- 16 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
121 of 738 episodes have a transcript.
16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 752: CHARLES GROB MD-Handbook of Medical Hallucinogens-Update on psychedelic research
29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 751: SHERRY TURKLE-ARTIFICIAL INTIMACY-Who We Become When We Talk to Machines
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 750: ERAM ALAM-THE CARE OF FOREIGNERS-How Immigrant MDs Changed US Healthcare.
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Episode 752: CHARLES GROB MD-Handbook of Medical Hallucinogens-Update on psychedelic research
Published 16 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Big pharma is moving in. People with no background with psychedelics, but who have come from the world of pharma, corporate pharma, think there's money to be made. And this has me concerned a lot too, because to optimize profits, I'm concerned that safety parameters may be dampened down. And that could be a huge problem because to do this work moving forward, I think you really need to optimize safety parameters and also optimize ethical parameters where there have been problems in the past that we can't tolerate those recurring as well. Another thing I would think is that pharma, well, let me say two things. […]
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- Charles Grob
- Sherry Turkle
- Eram Alam
- Sven Beckert
- John Jenkins
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- 4.6 / 5
- 29 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.0 / 5
- 2 ratings
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- YouTube
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- Engagement
- 92
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