Ground Truths

Facts, data, and analytics about biomedical matters.

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Recent Episodes
  • Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future
    May 26, 2025 – 33:15
  • Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath
    May 10, 2025 – 32:18
  • Bob Bordone and Joel Salinas: How to Deal With Conflict
    May 5, 2025 – 29:13
  • Steve Quake and Charlotte Bunne: The Holy Grail of Biology
    Mar 18, 2025 – 43:43
  • Katelyn Jetelina: Public health in the US
    Mar 14, 2025 – 26:46
  • Anna Greka: Molecular Sleuthing for Rare Diseases
    Mar 9, 2025 – 48:33
  • Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid
    Feb 28, 2025 – 53:57
  • Emily Silverman: Storytelling, Uncertainty, and Humanity in Medicine
    Feb 9, 2025 – 47:26
  • Lotte Bjerre Knudsen: The Scientist Who Drove GLP-1 Drugs For Obesity and Alzheimer's
    Jan 4, 2025 – 47:05
  • Ardem Patapoutian: The Pervasive PIEZO Channels
    Dec 29, 2024 – 39:58
  • Mark Cuban: A Master Disrupter for American Healthcare
    Dec 20, 2024 – 37:57
  • Kevin Hall: What Should We Eat?
    Nov 30, 2024 – 47:47
  • The Glaucomfleckens: The Best in Medical Comedy
    Nov 16, 2024 – 35:07
  • Rachael Bedard: A Geriatric Physician and Champion for Patients Without a Voice
    Nov 2, 2024 – 43:03
  • Katerina Akassoglou: Blood Clots, Brain Inflammation, and Covid
    Oct 19, 2024 – 35:53
  • Patrick Hsu: A Trailblazer in Digital Biology
    Oct 13, 2024 – 47:29
  • AI Snake Oil—A New Book by 2 Princeton University Computer Scientists
    Sep 24, 2024 – 39:24
  • Francis Collins: On Truth, Science, Faith and Trust
    Sep 11, 2024 – 40:04
  • Joseph Allen: The Pivotal Importance of Air Quality, Ventilation and Exposures (Such as "Forever Chemicals") For Our Health
    Sep 5, 2024 – 01:01:39
  • Steve Horvath: Our Epigenetic Age Clocks
    Aug 23, 2024 – 41:25
  • Pradeep Natarajan: Preventing Heart Disease
    Aug 13, 2024 – 57:44
  • Shane Crotty: A Landmark Study on Upper Airway Mucosal Immunity
    Jul 31, 2024 – 38:06
  • Faisal Mahmood: A.I.'s Transformation of Pathology
    Jul 28, 2024 – 41:00
  • Euan Ashley: Exercise may be the single most potent medical intervention ever known
    Jul 5, 2024 – 48:18
  • Christopher Labos: Debunking Myths About What We Eat and Drink
    Jun 26, 2024 – 45:19
  • Charlie Swanton: A Master Class on Cancer
    Jun 14, 2024 – 55:38
  • Tom Cech: RNA Takes Center Stage
    Jun 5, 2024 – 49:04
  • Venki Ramakrishnan: The New Science of Aging
    May 28, 2024 – 49:54
  • Svetlana Blitshteyn: On the Front Line With Long Covid and POTS
    May 20, 2024 – 53:11
  • Kate Crawford: A Leading Scholar and Conscience for A.I.
    May 12, 2024 – 51:06
  • Akiko Iwasaki: The Immunology of Covid and the Future
    May 4, 2024 – 41:48
  • Aviv Regev: The Revolution in Digital Biology
    Apr 28, 2024 – 36:24
  • Jennifer Doudna: The Exciting Future of Genome Editing
    Apr 14, 2024 – 31:10
  • Daniel Drucker: Illuminating the GLP-1 Drug's Break Out
    Apr 6, 2024 – 36:30
  • Sid Mukherjee: On A.I., Longevity and Being A Digital Human
    Mar 29, 2024 – 47:27
  • Holden Thorp: Straight Talk from the Editor-in-Chief of the Science family of journals
    Mar 17, 2024 – 01:00:37
  • Daphne Koller: The Convergence of A.I. and Digital Biology
    Mar 10, 2024 – 35:16
  • Coleen Murphy: The Science of Aging and Longevity
    Mar 3, 2024 – 44:30
  • Michelle Monje: The Brain in Long Covid and Cancer
    Feb 25, 2024 – 43:57
  • Jim Collins: Discovery of the First New Structural Class of Antibiotics in Decades, Using A.I.
    Feb 13, 2024 – 28:52
  • Katalin Karikó: The unimaginable, obstacle-laden, multi-decade journey to discover the mRNA platform and win the 2023 Nobel Prize
    Feb 2, 2024 – 54:24
  • Jonathan Howard, author of We Want Them Infected
    Jan 25, 2024 – 43:21
  • An exhilarating conversation with Azeem Azhar on medical A.I., science of aging, genome editing and the GLP-1 drugs
    Jan 18, 2024 – 01:17:51
  • Liv Boeree: On Competition, Moloch Traps, and the A.I. Arms Race
    Jan 13, 2024 – 36:26
  • Tony Wyss-Coray: The Science of Aging
    Dec 26, 2023 – 32:03
  • David Liu: A Master Class on the Future of Genome Editing
    Dec 10, 2023 – 47:52
  • Geoffrey Hinton: Large Language Models in Medicine. They Understand and Have Empathy
    Dec 8, 2023 – 36:33
  • Andrew Ng: On OpenAI's stormy times, AI regulation, education, and where we are headed for healthcare and beyond
    Nov 21, 2023 – 32:23
  • The Science Behind Food and Dangers of Ultra-Processed, Artificial, Non-Food with Dr. Chris Van Tulleken
    Oct 24, 2023 – 46:37
  • Peter Attia: Our conversation about his hit book OUTLIVE, Medicine 3.0, promoting healthspan, GLP-1 drugs and more
    Oct 19, 2023 – 43:03
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    Great guests, information, and clarity. They explain complex medical concepts in plain language and improve how I think through issues.
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