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    Criminalia

    Criminalia

    Criminalia

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    Length:
    209 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    Humans have always committed crimes. What can we learn from the criminals and crimes of the past, and have humans gotten better or worse over time?
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 209 episodes

    Title

    Asthma and Smoking: When Cigarettes Were Medicine

    In 1946, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company launched an ad campaign with the slogan, “More d...

    26 minutes
    		May 14, 2024

    That Time Perry Davis Trademarked ‘Pain Killer’ and Then Took It Global

    By the time he was in his 40s, Perry Davis was an entrepreneur who had tried, unsuccess...

    38 minutes
    		May 07, 2024

    How the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company Had Nothing to Do With 'American Indians' or 'Medicine'

    John Healy wasn’t a real doctor. Charles Bigelow was never a scout in the United States...

    33 minutes
    		Apr 30, 2024

    ‘Where Sick Folks Get Well’: Norman Baker Couldn’t Cure Cancer. Period.

    Norman Baker was an entrepreneur, a pioneering radio personality, and a fake doctor. He...

    33 minutes
    		Apr 23, 2024

    Spoiler! Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People … May Have Worked

    Though the Pink Pills couldn't stand up to the wild advertising claims that the product...

    26 minutes
    		Apr 16, 2024

    Radioactive Quackery: 'Doctor' Bailey and His Jaw-Dissolving ‘Energy Drink’

    William Bailey called himself a doctor, but his career was as a shady businessman, not ...

    32 minutes
    		Apr 09, 2024

    How Perkins Tractors Taught Us the Placebo Effect

    Today, if you’re asked to think of a tractor, most of us probably imagine farm equipmen...

    27 minutes
    		Apr 02, 2024

    Madame Yale Made a Fortune as America’s 19th-century ‘Wellness Guru’

    When Maude Mayberg was 38 years old, this was back in 1890, she 'discovered' an elixir ...

    28 minutes
    		Mar 26, 2024

    How ‘Rattlesnake King’ Clark Stanley Became King of Snake Oil Sales

    Clark Stanley was a silver-tongued Texas cowboy who called himself the ‘Rattlesnake Kin...

    23 minutes
    		Mar 19, 2024

    Welcome to a New Season of Criminalia: 'THE SNAKE OIL SALESMEN'

    Snake oil. Today the term describes any worthless remedy that's promoted as a cure-all....

    2 minutes
    		Mar 12, 2024