Showing results by publisher "audible originals" in Politics & Social Sciences
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Medieval Myths & Mysteries
- Written by: Dorsey Armstrong, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Dorsey Armstrong
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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The 10 enlightening (and often humorous) lectures of Medieval Myths and Mysteries will show you how far from the “dark” times of legend these centuries were. Uncover the facts about the Knights Templar. Reveal the truth behind the tales of legendary creatures like the Questing Beast and the unicorn. Trace the events of the Black Death and the ways it altered the world in its wake, and much more. With Professor Armstrong, you will dig deep into the ways that later generations reshaped the narrative of the medieval years and perpetuated the myths.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- By Jen on 2021-08-02
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Medieval Myths & Mysteries
- Narrated by: Dorsey Armstrong
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2019-09-17
- Language: English
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True North Heists
- Written by: Andrew Kaufman
- Narrated by: Colm Feore
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True North Heists tells the tales of some of the most outlandish capers ever committed on Canadian soil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love it.. great canadiana
- By Frazer Bergman on 2020-10-17
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400 Years of Drinking in America
- Written by: Susan Cheever, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Susan Cheever
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
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America’s relationship with alcohol is a fraught and inconsistent one. While many other nations and cultures have stable attitudes toward drinking, the American perspective on alcohol has been volatile, vacillating wildly from the gallon-a-day beer rations on the Mayflower to nationwide prohibition and back again. Why are Americans so ambivalent about alcohol? What can we learn about the past and the American character through these extreme fluctuations between alcoholism and sobriety across the centuries?
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400 Years of Drinking in America
- Narrated by: Susan Cheever
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2025-10-16
- Language: English
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Fiasco: The AIDS Crisis
- Written by: Leon Neyfakh, Andrew Parsons, Sam Graham-Felsen, and others
- Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 23
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From the co-creators of Slow Burn, Fiasco is a narrative podcast that transports listeners into the day-to-day reality of America’s most pivotal historical events.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliantly done
- By Heather M. on 2022-05-15
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Conspiracies & Conspiracy Theories
- What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why
- Written by: Michael Shermer, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Michael Shermer
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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The stuff of conspiracy theories makes for great, entertaining stories in movies, books, and television. And there is no shortage of subjects: from who really killed JFK to the truth behind 9/11. And then, there are subjects from alien invasions to the Moon landing was simulated - theories that are truly out of this world, which according to some, is flat. Many of these crazy concepts have jumped off the pages or screens to become so pervasive in our culture that thousands - even millions - subscribe to them as reality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A couple of problems
- By Richard on 2020-01-13
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Conspiracies & Conspiracy Theories
- What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why
- Narrated by: Michael Shermer
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2019-09-17
- Language: English
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West Cork
- Written by: Audible Original
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8
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[Contains Mature Themes] This much we do know: Sophie Toscan du Plantier was murdered days before Christmas in 1996, her broken body discovered at the edge of her property near the town of Schull in West Cork, Ireland. The rest remains a mystery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant.
- By Angela on 2023-04-19
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Harvest
- The True Cost of Cotton
- Written by: Maryam Aslany, Rana Dasgupta
- Narrated by: Pooya Mohseni, Nadia Marshall, Vikas Adam, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
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Harvest transports listeners to the beautiful and eerie world of India’s cotton fields. Source of the most intimate and universal of commodities, we find these white-flecked lands pushed to their limit by global pressures.
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Harvest
- The True Cost of Cotton
- Narrated by: Pooya Mohseni, Nadia Marshall, Vikas Adam, Manu Narayan, Azhar Khan, Anjali Bhimani, Lucy Rayner, Sandeep C Deshpande, Pushan Kripalani, Robbin Singh, Sachit Murthy, Nagesh Prasad, Mahika Singh, Ankita Podder
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2025-09-18
- Language: English
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The Greatest Menace
- Inside the Gay Prison Experiment
- Written by: Patrick Abboud, Simon Cunich
- Narrated by: Patrick Abboud
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Tucked away amongst snow-covered mountains is a tiny Australian town with a dark secret. Journalist Patrick Abboud hears whispers that it was once home to the world’s only 'gay prison'. A prison that specifically incarcerated gay men. His investigation into what happened inside reveals the full story for the first time. This queer true-crime journey takes you from underground nightclubs to hidden sex haunts, to remote parts of New Zealand and England. You’ll find yourself entangled in a police cover up, a case of wrongful conviction and a human experiment that didn’t go to plan.
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The Greatest Menace
- Inside the Gay Prison Experiment
- Narrated by: Patrick Abboud
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2022-02-11
- Language: English
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Meltdown
- Written by: David Sirota, Dan O’Donnell, Shoshi Shmuluvitz, and others
- Narrated by: David Sirota
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 14
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Listen to the trailer now and the full podcast on 10/28.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Some fascinating through lines
- By Parallax Abstraction on 2021-11-01
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Wolves and Werewolves in History and Popular Culture
- Written by: Shannon Scott, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Shannon Scott
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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In the 10 lectures of Wolves and Werewolves in History and Popular Culture, author and teacher Shannon Scott will take you around the world to explore the many ways humans have created and shared stories of wolves, shape-shifting, and lycanthropy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delivers the goods
- By presterjohn1 on 2023-07-04
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Wolves and Werewolves in History and Popular Culture
- Narrated by: Shannon Scott
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2021-10-14
- Language: English
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Backfired: The Vaping Wars
- Written by: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
- Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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When two Stanford graduate students set out to create a new kind of cigarette that wouldn’t kill them, they didn’t foresee all the obstacles that lay ahead — or the powerful forces their invention would unleash. Nearly 10 years after the launch of the JUUL, Backfired: The Vaping Wars asks: Could e-cigarettes have been the solution to one of the world’s most pressing public health problems—or was this technology doomed to introduce a whole new generation to nicotine, and end up perpetuating an intractable addiction?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love 😍
- By Colin J Druhan on 2025-09-09
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Backfired: The Vaping Wars
- Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
- Series: Backfired
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2024-06-20
- Language: English
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Shipwreck
- How a Captain, Company, and Culture Sank the SS El Faro
- Written by: Maeve McGoran
- Narrated by: Maeve McGoran
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8
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2015 saw the worst American maritime disaster in decades. The captain of the SS El Faro commanded his crew to sail straight into a hurricane. The ship sank and all 33 crew members died. The sinking raised troubling questions: Why did the captain choose to sail into the hurricane? Why did no one on board or on shore stop him? And why was such an old and heavily loaded ship even allowed on the water? The crew of the SS El Faro is gone, but their haunting final hours were preserved by the ship’s black box.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well told true story
- By O'NNO! Creative on 2025-09-25
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Shipwreck
- How a Captain, Company, and Culture Sank the SS El Faro
- Narrated by: Maeve McGoran
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2025-08-07
- Language: English
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Margaret Thatcher: A Modern Leader
- Written by: Amy Edwards, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Amy Edwards
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 5
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The 1980s was a decade of change for many countries, but for Great Britain, it could be considered radical. The economic transformation of Britain during that period bears the indelible mark of Margaret Thatcher and her policies. In this Audible Original, Professor Amy Edwards takes you through the life and leadership of Margaret Thatcher. See how she went from being a shopkeeper’s daughter who lived above her parent’s corner shop to holding Britain’s top job and earning a reputation as one of the most influential politicians of the 20th century.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very summarized information
- By Bella Bekah on 2025-04-18
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Margaret Thatcher: A Modern Leader
- Narrated by: Amy Edwards
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2023-06-08
- Language: English
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Caffeine
- How Caffeine Created the Modern World
- Written by: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,069
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 891
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 887
Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original. In this controversial and exciting listen, Pollan explores caffeine’s power as the most-used drug in the world - and the only one we give to children (in soda pop) as a treat.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not what i expected
- By Andre Brisson on 2020-06-22
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Caffeine
- How Caffeine Created the Modern World
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2020-01-30
- Language: English
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Beyond Suspicion
- Written by: ITN Productions
- Narrated by: Yinka Bokinni
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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In this chilling true crime series, we tell the stories of pillars of the community who betrayed the trust of those around them and challenged what we all think about the people we’ve come to rely on. Police officers, teachers, doctors and nurses, we believe these people are here to protect us from harm, not cause it. This series looks at some of the most heinous crimes perpetrated by people in positions of trust and examines the ripples their actions left on their community.
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Beyond Suspicion
- Narrated by: Yinka Bokinni
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2025-04-30
- Language: English
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Listening to the Big Bang
- Written by: Brian Greene
- Narrated by: Brian Greene
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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A Russian dissident, a Jesuit priest, and an American mule skinner are but a few of the bold visionaries who crafted the scientific story of cosmic origins. The collective insights of these and numerous creative thinkers advanced human understanding from mythology to mathematics, yielding falsifiable alternatives to ancient folklore and campfire tales. Listening to the Big Bang tells the dramatic human story—filled with colorful characters, unsung catalysts, and glorified heroes—which made the Big Bang the leading cosmological theory.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Irritating music in the background
- By AL on 2025-04-29
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Listening to the Big Bang
- Narrated by: Brian Greene
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2025-04-24
- Language: English
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The Debutante
- Now, with a Stunning Bonus Episode!
- Written by: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Thirty years ago, award-winning journalist Jon Ronson stumbled on the mystery of Carol Howe—a charismatic, wealthy former debutante turned white supremacist spokeswoman turned undercover informant. In 1995, Carol was spying on Oklahoma’s neo-Nazis for the government just when Timothy McVeigh blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.
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2 out of 5 stars
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big fat nothingburger
- By Charles Pooter on 2023-05-07
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The Debutante
- Now, with a Stunning Bonus Episode!
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2023-04-13
- Language: English
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Captured
- The Secret Behind Silicon Valley’s AI Takeover
- Written by: Christopher Wylie, Isobel Cockerell, Becky Lipscombe
- Narrated by: Christopher Wylie, Isobel Cockerell
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 5
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AI has become the new religion. Are we going to follow it? Do we even have a choice? Or have the tech evangelists captured our future? Join Christopher Wylie and Coda Story’s Isobel Cockerell as they journey from exclusive crypto parties in Dubai, to the slums of Kenya where thousands of hidden workers are training AI models, to the hacker palaces of San Francisco where tech’s true believers talk about merging computers with our brains.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exposes deeply flawed logic
- By RichDrummer on 2025-06-20
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Captured
- The Secret Behind Silicon Valley’s AI Takeover
- Narrated by: Christopher Wylie, Isobel Cockerell
- Series: Undercurrents, Book 2
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2025-04-03
- Language: English
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The Butterfly Effect
- Written by: Jon Ronson
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 111
Join best-selling author Jon Ronson as he traces the story of one very strange butterfly effect: What happened after a teen in Brussels figured out how to make porn free and easily accessible on the internet. Traveling from the tech world of Silicon Valley to the San Fernando Valley, where most porn films were made, you learn the consequences of free porn, which turn out to be mysterious, shocking, sad, and, at times, even surprisingly sweet. A 7-part series takes you on a journey to places you'll never expect. [Explicit]
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story, terrible narrator
- By Athan Condax on 2018-04-13
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The Skeptic's Guide to Alternative Medicine
- Written by: Steven Novella MD, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Steven Novella MD
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Energy medicine. Acupuncture. Superfoods. Healing magnets. What does the scientific evidence really say about these and other eclectic treatments for personal wellness that fall under the popular term “alternative medicine”? How can we know if a treatment is safe and effective? How can you become your own best skeptical consumer of health news in the media? Join neurologist and science educator Dr. Steven Novella for a fascinating exploration of these and other important questions about the truths - and myths - behind alternative medicine.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This is a Pharma Sales Rep's book.
- By ChristineU on 2022-07-02
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The Skeptic's Guide to Alternative Medicine
- Narrated by: Steven Novella MD
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2019-11-19
- Language: English
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