
Why Should I Trust You?
Claim This Podcastby Brinda Adhikari, Tom Johnson, Maggie Bartlett, Dr. Mark Abdelmalek
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<p><b>Bold, unfiltered, and uncompromisingly honest, </b><b>Why Should I Trust You?</b><b> is a weekly podcast that looks at the breakdown in trust for science and public health. It drops every Thursday, with occasional additional special episodes sprinkled in. <br><br>Hosted by Brinda Adhikari, the former executive producer of </b><b>“The Problem with Jon Stewart”</b><b> and a former TV news journalist; Tom Johnson, the former executive producer of </b><b>“The Circus,” </b><b>and also a former TV news journalist; Dr. Maggie Bartlett, a virologist and assistant research professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and Dr. Mark Abdelmalek a skin cancer surgeon, a medical journalist and a dermatologist practicing in Philadelphia - each week we try to figure out what is behind this staggering collapse in trust and see if we can rebuild towards trust again. </b></p>
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- What is Why Should I Trust You??
<p><b>Bold, unfiltered, and uncompromisingly honest, </b><b>Why Should I Trust You?</b><b> is a weekly podcast that looks at the breakdown in trust for science and public health. It drops every Thursday, with occasional additional special episodes sprinkled in. <br><br>Hosted by Brinda Adhikari, the former executive producer of </b><b>“The Problem with Jon Stewart”</b><b> and a former TV news journalist; Tom Johnson, the former executive producer of </b><b>“The Circus,” </b><b>and also a former TV news journalist; Dr. Maggie Bartlett, a virologist and assistant research professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and Dr. Mark Abdelmalek a skin cancer surgeon, a medical journalist and a dermatologist practicing in Philadelphia - each week we try to figure out what is behind this staggering collapse in trust and see if we can rebuild towards trust again. </b></p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates daily.
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