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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

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Phineas's Tamping Iron

Phineas P. Gage survived nearly 12 years with a largely destroyed frontal lobe. He is considered the textbook case for post traumatic personality change. But in the retelling of Phineas's story, even by the best medical minds and institutions, there's a ton of bad information that's being passed off as fact.

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