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A Diet Conspiracy: Is Ice Cream Secretly Good for You?

A Diet Conspiracy: Is Ice Cream Secretly Good for You?

Update: 2023-05-093
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Today’s episode is about a narrow question and a broad question. The narrow question is: Is ice cream secretly good for you? The broader question is about the nature of uncertainty and truth, how diet science actually works, and how bias plays a role in scientific discovery. Our guest is public health historian and journalist David Johns, who has reported on ice cream science for The Atlantic.

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Host: Derek Thompson

Guest: David Johns

Producer: Devon Manze

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A Diet Conspiracy: Is Ice Cream Secretly Good for You?

A Diet Conspiracy: Is Ice Cream Secretly Good for You?

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