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SEASON 01: EPISODE 09 (PART 2 OF 2)

America's Chernobyl

On our last episode, you heard about the nuclear plant's largely-forgotten history--how it poisoned the people living downwind. On our season finale: a nuclear safety auditor tries to get it shut down, the downwinders struggle for justice, and we take you into the plant itself.

There's an expert behind everything.

Experts shape our world--sometimes for good, sometimes for ill. Their ideas are often opaque, unrecognized, and difficult to understand. Some of them like it that way. On Cited, we reveal their hidden stories.

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Secondary Symptoms

All this season, we're also running a COVID-19 mini-series: Secondary Symptoms. It's about the diseases' 'secondary symptoms;' what it is doing to our politics, our economy, our scientific communities, and our social fabric.

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SEASON 01: EPISODE 08 (PART 1 OF 2):

America’s Chernobyl

People say the Hanford Site, one of the three Manhattan Project sites, is a testament to science and the American Spirit. But across the river, sick farmers have a very different story. Part 1 of a 2-part season finale.

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America’s Chernobyl

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The Heroin Clinic

At Crosstown Clinic, doctors are turning addiction treatment on its head: they’re prescribing heroin-users the very drug they’re addicted to. This is the story of one clinic’s quest to remove the harms of addiction, without removing the addiction itself.

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The Heroin Clinic

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The Poison Paradigm

A revolutionary group of scientists are challenging a 500-year-old paradigm that guides how regulators evaluate chemicals. These scientists argue that some chemicals behave in erratic and unpredictable ways, and they can mess with us even at miniscule doses. If they’re right, then the chemicals around us are causing irreparable harm, and everything must change.

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The Poison Paradigm

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The Battle of Buxton

The town of Buxton, North Carolina loves their lighthouse. But in the 1970s, the ocean threatened to swallow it up. For the next three decades, they fought an intense political battle over what to do. Fight back against the forces of nature, or retreat? It’s a small preview of what’s to come in a time of rising seas. We team up with 99% Invisible to tell the story.

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The Battle of Buxton

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The Tamiflu Trials

On this episode, we open up the black box of pharmaceutical and public health expertise. We tell the story of a drug, from its days as middling flu treatment through its meteoric rise to international blockbuster. How do experts decide what makes a good drug, and how do pharmaceutical companies make billions from pandemic panic?

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The Tamiflu Trials

SEASON 01: EPISODE 05:

Made of Corn

When genetically modified corn was found in the highlands of Mexico, Indigenous campesino groups took to the streets to protect their cultural heritage, setting off a 20-year legal saga. Part two of our series on genetically modified maize.

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Made of Corn

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Modifying Maize

How the accidental finding of genetically modified corn in the highlands of Mexico set off a twenty-year battle over scientific methods, academic freedom, Indigenous rights, environmental law and international trade.

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Modifying Maize

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The Pavilion

Expo ‘67 was the centrepiece of Canada’s centennial celebrations. But amid the pageantry, one pavilion that stood out. This is the story of The Indians of Canada Pavilion, one of the first times Canadians had to publicly confront the colonial legacy of their country.

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The Pavilion

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Exiled in America

Growing up, Chris Dum has a morbid fascination with ‘deviant behavior.’ It led him down an unusual career path: he decided to study most reviled people in our society. Sex offenders.

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Exiled in America

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Repeat After Me

In 2011, an American psychologist named Daryl Bem proved the impossible. He showed that precognition — the ability to sense the future — is real. His study was explosive, and shook the very foundations of psychology.

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Repeat After Me

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The Science Wars

Some scholars say an obscure academic squabble called Science Wars might just explain our post-truth moment. To figure out if they're right, we go back to the beginning.

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The Science Wars

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Technocracy and its Discontents

The Obama years were the closest thing we’ve had to technocracy. The President and his administration celebrated science and expertise, and they gave enormous regulatory powers to ‘the smartest people.’

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Technocracy and its Discontents