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16: Medicine

Ep. 16

Medicine! In today's podcast we discuss taxonomy, early hominins, bloodworms, cod livers, the ultra-rich, porcupine factories and briefly, medicine. Should we make medicine compulsory? Or should it be banned? We work out the answer to this pressing question and also unearth many other truths in the process.

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