Death Panel

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/63787980 Bea speaks with Alexander Zaitchik about the fraught history of medical patents, and how applying intellectual property laws to drugs went from outright taboo to established order. Alexander Zaitchik is an independent journalist and author of Owning the Sun: A People's History of Monopoly M...

Bea and Abby speak with Jim Downs about the roots of epidemiology as part of the colonial and imperial project, and his book Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine. Jim Downs is the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Era Studies and History. You can find Jim's book here: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=978067...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/63506010 Abby Cartus and Justin Feldman join us for a close look at the Biden administration's new pandemic roadmap document, and what it suggests about what the government imagines for their long-promised "next phase" of the pandemic. Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communi...

We discuss the details of the CDC's new redefinition of its covid risk guidelines, and why they don't provide any good justification to drop masking. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/63185114 We speak with Jules Gill-Peterson about Texas Governor Greg Abbott's declaration last week that affirming the identities of trans children is child abuse and her recent piece "We, the Abuser State." Jules Gill-Peterson is Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, General C...

This episode was originally a patron exclusive posted February 14th. If you enjoy this episode consider supporting the show at patreon.com/deathpanelpod Melissa Gira Grant joins us to discuss the record amount of anti-trans bills already proposed at the state level this year, the passage of South Dakota's SB46, and how little institutional support trans people, trans children, and their parents ar...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/62871007 Bea speaks with Dr. Jonathan Howard about the rogue's gallery of covid minimizer doctors like Vinay Prasad, Francois Balloux, "Z Dog MD," and others, and their role during the pandemic in downplaying the risks to children while exaggerating the side effects of vaccination. Pre-orders are no...

We discuss the continued fallout of last week's dropped state masking guidelines, the popular new assertion that "one-way masking works," David Leonhardt's 5-point guide to protecting the vulnerable, and Yascha Mounk's appeal in The Atlantic to "Open Everything." As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMU...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/62568518 Melissa Gira Grant joins us to discuss the record amount of anti-trans bills already proposed at the state level this year, the passage of South Dakota's SB46, and how little institutional support trans people, trans children, and their parents are getting to help them fight back. Melissa G...

Epidemiologist Justin Feldman joins us to talk through this week's sudden pivot by Democrats to drop state mask mandates. We discuss where this policy change came from and how these decisions appear to have been influenced by the anti-mask "Urgency of Normal" group and the increasingly prominent advocacy of Leana Wen. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are n...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/62252204 Nathan Tankus returns to help us analyze the Biden administration's claim that "America is the only leading economy in the world where the economy is stronger than before the pandemic"—despite, you know. All the deaths. Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/61925249 Abby joins us to discuss the New York Times' pivot to full on covid skepticism, in the form of David Leonhardt's recent commissioned poll on attitudes about the pandemic, the corresponding interview on Times podcast The Daily, and a look back at two years of Leonhardt's downplaying of covid...

Dan Berger joins us for a detailed overview of how the pandemic has demonstrated the need for carceral abolition, how little has been done in the last two years to protect incarcerated people, and why prisons and policing are antithetical to public health. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM he...

We speak with Nate Holdren about his book Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era, the history of worker's compensation reforms, and what this history can teach us about coronavirus as an occupational disease that spreads at work. Nate Holdren (@n_hold) is Assistant Professor of Law, Politics, & Society at Drake University. Buy his book here: https://bi...

Epidemiologist Abby Cartus returns for a wide ranging conversation on the current state of the school closing/reopening debate and the ongoing vilification of teachers unions and student walkouts. Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712391/health-communism-by-beatrice-adler-bolton-and-artie-vierkant/ As always,...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/61291719 We discuss the administration's resigned stance that "virtually everybody is going to wind up getting exposed and likely infected" with covid-19 and what it really means to "learn to live with the virus," then take a look at the Supreme Court's decision this week to strike down the Biden em...

We're joined by Astra Taylor and Marshall Steinbaum for a conversation on why ending student debt is so pressing, the Biden administration's failure to fulfill its promises on student debt, and why we need a broader debt jubilee. Astra Taylor is cofounder of the Debt Collective, a filmmaker, and the author of The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age and Democracy May...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/60992988 We turn back the clock to the beginning of the pandemic to look at how our current pandemic response stacks up against even the lowest of bars: the proposals released by conservative think tanks like the American Enterprise Institute in early 2020. But first, we weigh in on CDC director Roc...

We discuss two newly pervasive lines on the pandemic. First, that case numbers are an increasingly unimportant metric, and that what we should be looking to hospitalization numbers instead. Second, that on top of that, we need to find out how many people are "hospitalized for" covid, compared with those who are simply "hospitalized with" covid. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/dea...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/60691090 We discuss the CDC's decision to shorten its covid isolation guidelines, their questionable reasoning for doing so, and how the scandal has played out in the last week. Runtime 1:08:45, 3 January 2022 🧬

Frank Pasquale joins us to discuss the rise of cost-benefit analysis as an influential force in American policy, the many problems with it, and what should be done about it. We also discuss his introduction to the Law and Political Economy Project's symposium on cost benefit analysis. Frank Pasquale (@FrankPasquale) is a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, and author of New Laws of Robotics (...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/60399460 Beatrice speaks with Loretta Torrago about the choices being forced on medically vulnerable children and their caregivers, and how the experiences of ill and disabled children have been largely erased during the pandemic. PSA: This week's public episode (12/30) we're unlocking our interview...

We review the year in the U.S. covid response, and the profound miscalculations on the part of the government and the media that have played a direct role in keeping this crisis ongoing. Episode transcript: https://blindarchive.substack.com/p/death-panel-podcast-covid-year-2 This episode was originally a patron exclusive posted December 13th. If you enjoy this episode consider supporting the show...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/60137584 We speak with Nate Holdren about his book Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era, the history of worker's compensation reforms, and the tensions surrounding disablement and the working class. Nate Holdren (@n_hold) is Assistant Professor of Law,...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/59879913 We take a close look at the U.S. covid response across 2021 and the government's many, tragic unforced errors that explain why things are as bad as they are right now. Runtime 1:49:23, 13 December 2021 🧬