Causes or Cures Public Health is Weird: America's Failed Experience with Truth Serum (with Eeks) — Bonus Episode
Disclaimer: 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 inside
- The myth of “truth serum” and why scopolamine never earned the badge
- From twilight sleep in childbirth to spy stories and interrogation lore
- What scopolamine actually does: amnesia, confusion, suggestibility
- Modern misuse and crime angles, plus real risks
- Ethics, consent, and why the legend still sells
- Eeks' thoughts on an "actual" truth serum, but she really wants to know yours
Why listen
A sharp, strange, funny tour of medicine, memory, and power—where a drug’s reputation outruns its evidence.
References cited in the podcast:
Jeremy Grey, AL.COM, Alabama Axe Murders
Alabama Axe Murder Confessions
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