Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Join Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin McElroy for a tour of all the dumb, bad, gross, weird and wrong ways we've tried to fix people.

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Sawbones: Essential Oils

Episode Date: September 27, 2019

This week on Sawbones, we talk about the many, many things essential oils can't do for you and the dueling Utah-based companies that insist we're wron...

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Sawbones: Garlic

Episode Date: September 20, 2019

For thousands of years, throughout an unprecedented number of cultures, garlic has been touted for its ability to improve our health. How? Well, by wa...

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Sawbones: Vaping

Episode Date: September 13, 2019

On Sawbones, we like to take a lot of hard lines and make grand proclamations: Vaccines good, viruses bad, that sort of thing. But when it comes to va...

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Sawbones: Hydrotherapy

Episode Date: September 9, 2019

Water: There's plenty of it, it's not obviously poisonous and it's cheap as all get out. Maybe THAT'S the answer to all our species' medical woes? ......

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Sawbones: The HPV Vaccine

Episode Date: August 30, 2019

A vaccine that can practically eliminate a type of human cancer should be cause for celebration across our species. Would it surprise it to learn that...

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Sawbones: Sneezing

Episode Date: August 26, 2019

Welcome to all the owners of human bodies! You're gonna love these things, they can run, jump ... and every once in a while they uncontrollably blast...

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Sawbones: Fever

Episode Date: August 18, 2019

Any species could have created a bunch of bogus ways to treat fevers. But only humans could use fevers as a bogus treatment for other stuff and then e...

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Sawbones: Medical Reversals

Episode Date: July 12, 2019

You're well acquainted with all of humanity's history of medical mistakes, but even modern medicine changes it's mind from time to time. This week on...

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Sawbones: Wine

Episode Date: June 30, 2019

We all know that consuming wine has no downsides whatsoever, but did you know it also has some amazing health benefits as well?! It's true! (Depending...

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Sawbones: Trichinosis

Episode Date: June 13, 2019

We all know it's probably smart not to eat raw pork, but this week on Sawbones, we'll meet the inspiring people brave enough to ask "Why?" (Note: We'r...

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Sawbones: Adenoviruses

Episode Date: June 7, 2019

This is the story of the military-funded vaccine that was, wasn't and then ($100 million later) was again. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

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Sawbones: Paternity Testing

Episode Date: May 31, 2019

Though we have it down to a (literal) science at this point, the history of determining parentage is chock-full of fake medicine. Two words: Impotence...

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Sawbones: Bleach

Episode Date: May 4, 2019

This week on Sawbones, an unnerving look into the upsettingly modern invention of ingesting bleach for medicinal uses. Content warning: This episode i...