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Thomas Platts-Mills

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66 total appearances

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Freakonomics Radio
617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?

They always say I'm bonkers. No, no, I've got away with murder several times. My father taught us that if we think A and the rest of the world thinks B, that is formal proof that A is correct. Being educated in an environment like that, is really extraordinary.

Freakonomics Radio
617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?

Because the public doesn't decide which grants get funded. The trouble is that the drug companies are so powerful and they advertise so much that people just get the idea that that's what it is. And actually, the guidelines are warped. I've been on a guideline panel for asthma where we were told that we should focus on large controlled trials published in the last five years.

Freakonomics Radio
617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?

Because the public doesn't decide which grants get funded. The trouble is that the drug companies are so powerful and they advertise so much that people just get the idea that that's what it is. And actually, the guidelines are warped. I've been on a guideline panel for asthma where we were told that we should focus on large controlled trials published in the last five years.

Freakonomics Radio
617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?

Because the public doesn't decide which grants get funded. The trouble is that the drug companies are so powerful and they advertise so much that people just get the idea that that's what it is. And actually, the guidelines are warped. I've been on a guideline panel for asthma where we were told that we should focus on large controlled trials published in the last five years.

Freakonomics Radio
617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?

Well, that basically means drug studies. The number of large controlled trials of tick avoidance that are being done is zero. No one could afford to do them. Companies have a lot of money, and they do big, well-controlled trials, some of which are really important, but many of which are me too, or trying a new drug, which is a very tiny variant of the previous.

Freakonomics Radio
617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?

Well, that basically means drug studies. The number of large controlled trials of tick avoidance that are being done is zero. No one could afford to do them. Companies have a lot of money, and they do big, well-controlled trials, some of which are really important, but many of which are me too, or trying a new drug, which is a very tiny variant of the previous.

Freakonomics Radio
617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?

Well, that basically means drug studies. The number of large controlled trials of tick avoidance that are being done is zero. No one could afford to do them. Companies have a lot of money, and they do big, well-controlled trials, some of which are really important, but many of which are me too, or trying a new drug, which is a very tiny variant of the previous.

Freakonomics Radio
617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?

it's much more important to try and understand what's happened. I've written a history of food allergy, and there are three forms of food allergy, which are peanut and the other allergens that cause immediate hypersensitivity, eosinophilic esophagitis, and the alpha-gal syndrome.

Freakonomics Radio
617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?

it's much more important to try and understand what's happened. I've written a history of food allergy, and there are three forms of food allergy, which are peanut and the other allergens that cause immediate hypersensitivity, eosinophilic esophagitis, and the alpha-gal syndrome.

Freakonomics Radio
617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?

it's much more important to try and understand what's happened. I've written a history of food allergy, and there are three forms of food allergy, which are peanut and the other allergens that cause immediate hypersensitivity, eosinophilic esophagitis, and the alpha-gal syndrome.

Freakonomics Radio
617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?

And why I pull those apart is because they're mechanistically completely different, causally different, and the reasons why they've increased are different. Peanut is probably ridiculous washing of the skin with detergents. EOE, we've just published a hypothesis that the processing of milk is a major part of that.

Freakonomics Radio
617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?

And why I pull those apart is because they're mechanistically completely different, causally different, and the reasons why they've increased are different. Peanut is probably ridiculous washing of the skin with detergents. EOE, we've just published a hypothesis that the processing of milk is a major part of that.

Freakonomics Radio
617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?

And why I pull those apart is because they're mechanistically completely different, causally different, and the reasons why they've increased are different. Peanut is probably ridiculous washing of the skin with detergents. EOE, we've just published a hypothesis that the processing of milk is a major part of that.

Freakonomics Radio
617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?

Instead of pasteurizing milk at 84 degrees centigrade, all the milk you drink is heated to 135 degrees centigrade. It's dead, and it's homogenized, which means the particles are all changed, so they're much smaller, and we say weaponized to immunize the esophagus. And the third one, the alpha-gal syndrome, we believe is primarily due to the loss of dogs in the suburban areas.

Freakonomics Radio
617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?

Instead of pasteurizing milk at 84 degrees centigrade, all the milk you drink is heated to 135 degrees centigrade. It's dead, and it's homogenized, which means the particles are all changed, so they're much smaller, and we say weaponized to immunize the esophagus. And the third one, the alpha-gal syndrome, we believe is primarily due to the loss of dogs in the suburban areas.

Freakonomics Radio
617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?

Instead of pasteurizing milk at 84 degrees centigrade, all the milk you drink is heated to 135 degrees centigrade. It's dead, and it's homogenized, which means the particles are all changed, so they're much smaller, and we say weaponized to immunize the esophagus. And the third one, the alpha-gal syndrome, we believe is primarily due to the loss of dogs in the suburban areas.

Freakonomics Radio
617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?

What happened in the early 80s is leash laws. And now the dogs can't get together to drive the deer out. And so we all have a herd of deer on our lawn and the deer are covered with ticks.

Freakonomics Radio
617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?

What happened in the early 80s is leash laws. And now the dogs can't get together to drive the deer out. And so we all have a herd of deer on our lawn and the deer are covered with ticks.

Freakonomics Radio
617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?

What happened in the early 80s is leash laws. And now the dogs can't get together to drive the deer out. And so we all have a herd of deer on our lawn and the deer are covered with ticks.

Freakonomics Radio
617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?

I was very well known in the 70s for saying that television had had a major effect on asthma. We published a paper in which we showed that if people watched a screen, they took less deep breaths. If they're reading a book, they still breathe normally. If your child is watching television and you touch their shoulder, they actually jump slightly because they're in a trance.