If you've ever felt like the official story just doesn't add up, you're in the right place. Just Killing Time with Elizabeth Stanton unravels true crime cases and the conspiracies lurking beneath them — one uncomfortable truth at a time.
SEMMELWEIS REFLEX - The Doctor Who Said Wash Your Hands
🧼🕯️ Episode 41: In 1847, Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis cut deaths in a Vienna maternity ward from 18.3% to 2.2% with a basin of chlorinated lime. The medical establishment ruined him anyway. This is the true story behind the Semmelweis reflex. At the end of July 1865, a Hungarian professor boarded an overnight train thinking he was headed to a German spa. Colleagues delivered him to a Vienna asylum instead. Within two weeks he was dead of blood poisoning, the very kind of infection he had spent his ca...
8 Oct 2026
LOBOTOMY BRINGS THEM HOME - The Ice Pick Doctor
🔪 "I suggested them not tell Howard anything about it." A doctor wrote that about a 12-year-old boy in 1960, days before a steel instrument was tapped through the bone above his eye with a hammer. The fee: $200. 🧠 This is the true story of the lobotomy and the part schools skip: it wasn't a hidden horror. Medical journals praised it, newspapers put it on the front page, state hospitals and the Veterans Administration used it, and a Nobel Prize committee honored it. 👏 🕯️ This episode is dedica...
6 Oct 2026
HELEN LANE LIVES - The Henrietta Lacks Story
🧬 Who was Henrietta Lacks? In 1951, a 31-year-old Black mother of five went to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for cervical cancer treatment. While she was under anesthesia, a surgeon took two small tissue samples that no one had asked her about. One of them grew in a lab when no human cells ever had. Those cells, called HeLa, are still alive today, and they have been used in research on polio, cancer, viruses, HPV and genetics. Her family was not told for decades. This is the full story....
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