Ground Truths

Facts, data, and analytics about biomedical matters. erictopol.substack.com

Ground Truths is a health podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 93 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Ground Truths, a health show with 93 episodes published.

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  Helen Pearson: What Constitutes Real Medical Evidence?

  Jun 6, 202652 minS0

  <p></p><p>Helen Pearson, PhD, is an award-winning biomedical journalist at Nature, named European Science Journalist of the Year in 2025. She teaches science writing at University College London. BEYOND BELIEF is her second, just published book. THE LIFE PROJECT was her first. </p><p></p><p></p><p>The points we covered include:</p><p>—The evolution of evidence over 8 decades, moving from rationalism, expert opinion, hunches (eminence-based) to empiricism, evidence-based</p><p>—The enormous devastating adverse impact of Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care book from a single sentence change, leading to an epidemic of sudden infant death...

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  Assessment of the Hantavirus with Prof Donald Milton

  May 14, 202652 minS0

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  Joanna Stern: An AI Immersion for 365 Days

  May 13, 202658 minS0

  <p>Joanna Stern was the Wall Street Journal technology journalist for 12 years. She’s an Emmy award winner for her documentary E-Ternal, and recently started her own company New Things, with added advice from ChatGPT! </p><p>Over the years at WSJ, I relied on Joanna’s reviews of technology for many purchases (and things I avoided) reflecting her keen and brutal assessments. I also had fun working with her on some of her video assessments of health technologies. </p><p>Her book I AM NOT A ROBOT is both hilarious and highly informative. It is a terrific primer for thos...

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  Roxanne Khamsi: We Are All Genetic Mosaics

  Apr 25, 202652 minS0

  <p><p>“You are a slightly different genetic version of yourself today from yesterday, and will be different yet again tomorrow.”—Roxanne Khamsi</p></p><p><p>“Each neuron really is a beautiful and unique snowflake”—Ed Yong</p></p><p>Roxanne Khamsi is one of the leading life science journalists, a contributing writer at The Atlantic, recognized with multiple awards for notable publications. Her new book is entitled BEYOND INHERITANCE. It tells the story about us all being genetic mosaics, chock full of somatic (acquired) mutations, and the implications of those mutations for our health. The myth of a single genom...

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  Sebastian Mallaby: The Infinity Machine

  Apr 19, 202654 minS0

  <p></p><p>This is one of my favorite books over recent years. Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul A. Cocker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council of Foreign Relations and author of 6 bestselling books. </p><p>THE INFINITY MACHINE tells the story of AI’s progress over the past 15 years largely, but not exclusively, from Demis Hassabis as the protagonist and leader of DeepMind’, with its 2010 mission statement to achieve superintelligence by 2030. It’s a rich, informative, page turner.</p><p></p><p>What We Discussed:</p><p>—What is an Infinity Machine?</p><p>—Influence of Claude Shannon’s...

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