The Minnesota Starvation Experiment took place near the end of World War II. 36 volunteers participated in this study designed to investigate the physical and psychological effects of Starvation, along with the best way to re-feed people after they've been malnourished for many months. Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History is a podcast that reexamined something from the past and asks whether we got it right the first time.
We’re sharing a bonus episode from another Pushkin podcast, Revisionist History. Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast about things misunderstood and overlooked. This season, Malcolm’s obsessed with experiments – natural experiments, scientific experiments, thought experiments. In this episode, Revisionist History examines the testimony of 18 men who took part in an astonishing experiment at the University of Minnesota during the Second World War. Revisionist History takes you through the tapes, and asks why people are still arguing over the Minnesota experiment 75 years later.
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