Behind the Bastards
Part One: The Vioxx Scandal: How Big Pharma Killed More Americans Than Vietnam
10 Dec 2024
Robert sits down with Dr. Kaveh Hoda to talk about Vioxx, a pain medication released by pharmaceutical giant Merck even though they knew it caused fatal heart attacks. (2 Part Series)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast where Sophie is not in the room right now. So Dr. Kaveh Hoda and I are the foxes watching the hen house that is also, we're also the hens. I am the producer. I am the captain now. We're like hen foxes, like a cat dog situation. Although I imagine a hen fox, the fox is just going to try to eat its hen. That's part of its butt, I imagine.
I love your quaint country colloquialisms. It's great.
Don't know what they mean, but you're probably too young for that cartoon. I was the right age for it. Yes. Dr. Hoda, my health care expert, legally my doctor. Do you have any theories that you can't prove that are unprovable, that are probably nonsense, that you nonetheless believe about health? Yeah, I got a lot.
That's good. As a doctor, I feel like I should. I will talk to you at great length about how supplements are a fantastic waste of time. And I will tell you in detail, and I have on many episodes, why they're more dangerous generally than they are good. And you should only use them with strict instructions from your physician. But that being said...
I feel like ginger really helps me in like a power up way that it doesn't. I know it doesn't, but I love it. And the placebo effect is so strong for me that, you know.
You got to adopt that placebo.
Yeah, ginger is my magic thing. My little magic creation in my mind that works more than it really does.
Yeah, I I'm not big on supplements. I do take my doctor advised me to take for for blood pressure, calcium and potassium. So so so I do I do I do some of that, which I've noticed I don't get cramps as much as I used to. So I guess I guess I'll call that a win. I do love looking into the different potential side effects.
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