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Lester Glick’s year in the Minnesota Starvation Experiment cost him his hoped-for career and also left him with an eating disorder for the rest of his life. But like many of the other volunteers, he said he would have done it again in a heartbeat. Revisionist History explores the scientific legacy of this experiment, and asks whether it’s time to reimagine our understanding of sacrifice.
Season 7 (2022)
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ABOUT REVISIONIST HISTORY
Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell’s journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every podcast episode re-examines something from the past - an event, a person, an idea, even a song - and asks whether we got it right the first time. Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.
ABOUT MALCOLM GLADWELL
Malcolm Gladwell is president and co-founder of Pushkin Industries. He is a journalist, a speaker, and the author of six New York Times bestsellers including The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and Talking to Strangers. He has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1996. He is a trustee of the Surgo Foundation and currently serves on the board of the RAND Corporation.
ABOUT PUSHKIN INDUSTRIES
Pushkin Industries is an audio production company dedicated to creating premium content in a collaborative environment. Co-founded by Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg in 2018, Pushkin has launched seven new shows into the top 10 on Apple Podcasts (Against the Rules, The Happiness Lab, Solvable, Cautionary Tales, Deep Cover, The Last Archive, and Lost Hills), in addition to producing the hugely successful Revisionist History. Pushkin’s growing audiobook catalogue includes includes the bestselling biography “Fauci,” by Michael Specter, “Hasta La Vista, America,” Kurt Andersen’s parody Trump farewell speech performed by Alec Baldwin, "Takeover" by Noah Feldman, and “Talking to Strangers,” from Pushkin co-founder Malcolm Gladwell. Pushkin is dedicated to producing audio in any format that challenges listeners and inspires curiosity and joy.
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[@laurenedson7625]

I don’t know the solution for fixing this but I think your algorithm is really pushing this podcast off the radar! I had to look up your name on KZbin to find it randomly after reading your new book and was surprised as one of your fans that I hadn’t seen it! Love the show and deserves more acknowledgment!

[@montecito12]

I agree. However, the podcast just popped up in my feed after I did a search for something, but I've subscribed and enjoyed every show. I'm surprised you don't have many more followers, but I'm sure it's coming. Everyone does such a great job. Malcolm, you are a great interviewer and Podcaster. I learned something valuable with every show, which is better than listening to stupid, dangerous politics. 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@MichaelBristow137]

This is extremely touching, thank you for making it... And thank you to all of the people that sacrificed their health for humanities sake and scientific understanding to help others... We ALL owe you a debt.

[@samm1883]

This should be a full scale documentary

[@MeeCee5204]

Once you know what deprivation, pain and hopelessness is like, you want to prevent it for as many people as you can. I totally understand ❤

[@rogerpatry5167]

Contrast this Great Depression/WW2 generation’s sacrifice and service to a greater good to the earlier podcast’s self-absorbed Wharton students. Very interesting that in today’s more comfortable and safer times, rather than wanting to create more good, 100% of them wanted to solidify their advantage at the expense of others. The starvation experiment Guinea pigs gave from their poverty. Sounds almost biblical…

[@alalalala57]

Why would a generation so robbed of their future be expected to give more? None of these folks should be expected to do it.

[@MeeCee5204]

@@alalalala57 They haven't been robbed of their future. It is their job to create their future with the remnants of past successes and failures just like all of us have. If hindsight is 20/20, they will not make the same mistakes that generations of the past have make, just like we said we wouldn't.

[@brendalalicker4855]

Great podcast series, really incredible! Were the participants ever formally recognized for the comprehension they enabled medicine?

[@naftalibendavid]

I had read about this experiment before. I was concerned about hindsight bias, especially in the discussions of ethical approval. Nevertheless, you have uncovered facets of the impact of the study that I never knew and really depicted key issues in a novel way.

[@tinacooper7327]

interesting to hear these stories... I wonder what we can learn from folks participating in shows like Alone, where we also see a level of voluntary starvation among contestants (within some bounds)

[@rubes8065]

Where’s your episode on Ketchup, Revisited? Joking but not joking. As usual, in love with this podcast. Gives my curiosity what no one can give.

[@rdee7239]

great video

[@jeanne553]

Many of these questions are answered with evolutionary psychology and biology. Read The Pleasure Trap by Dr Doug Lisle and Dr Alan Goldhammer.

[@ed19742006]

Post tramatic motivation is powerful. Shut the power off to the cities for 30 days. A new world will dawn.

[@MYTHFROMNATURE]

Sir, do you have a tuberculosis?

[@solexxx8588]

Just another cult.