Public Health is Weird: America's Failed Experience with Truth Serum, with Eeks

Send us Fan MailDisclaimer: Entertainment only. Eeks is not a public health historian; just a gremlin who reads too much and asks weird questions BONUS Episodes are part of the "Public Health is Weird" Causes or Cures Series. What’s insideThe myth of “truth serum” and why scopolamine never earned the badgeFrom twilight sleep in childbirth to spy stories and interrogation loreWhat scopolamine actually does: amnesia, confusion, suggestibilityModern misuse and crime angles, plus real risksEthics, consent, and why the legend still sellsEeks' thoughts on an "actual" truth serum, but she really wants to know yoursWhy listen A sharp, strange, funny tour of medicine, memory, and power—where a drug’s reputation outruns its evidence.References cited in the podcast: Embryo Project EncyclopediaPhysician's flowersMKUltraJeremy Grey, AL.COM, Alabama Axe MurdersAlabama Axe Murder ConfessionsTinder Death News StoryState Dept WarningWork with me? Perhaps we are a good match. Follow Public Health is WeirdYou can contact Dr. Eeks at bloomingwellness.com.Follow Eeks on Instagram here.Or Facebook here.Or X.On Youtube.Or TikTok.SUBSCRIBE to her WEEKLY newsletter here! (Now featuring interviews with top experts on health you care about!)Share the weird: If you liked this, send it to a friend who loves public health history with teeth.Support the show