Viral Linsey Grove & Megan Albertson

Let's get silly! Cartoons have been used to communicate health behaviors (both good and bad). Let's revisit some of our favorite toons and how they've impacted public health.
Check out our Patreon for Linsey's Sailor Moon drawings from middle school!
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Ice, Ice, baby! We're talking about how ice changed the world and public health! 
References:
Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks -- A Cool History of a Hot Commodity
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Get your tin foil hats on! We're talking about the history of institutional mistrust in public health and how it impacts today's issues. 
References:
Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts
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Join us for our final episode about anti-fat stigma! We interview and kiki with Christine Byrne (she/her), MPH, RD, LDN, a non-diet dietitian nutritionist, longtime journalist, and the founder of Ruby Oak Nutrition. She specializes in nutrition counseling for eating disorders and loves working with college students and adults.
Content warning: we do talk about disordered eating and eating disorders.
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An opinion piece in the New York Times caught our eye: A Paper That Says Science Should Be Impartial Was Rejected By Major Journals. You Can't Make This Up. by Pamela Paul. Can science be impartial and how do we address bias?
The reference article can be found here.
Other show notes:
Citation Justice: https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/citation-justice 
References:
Abbot, D.; Bikfalvi, A.; Bleske-Rechek, A.; Bodmer, W.; Boghossian, P.; Carvalho, C.; Ciccolini, J.; Coyne, J.; Gauss, J.; Gill, P.; Jitomirskaya, S.; Jussim, L.; Krylov, A.; Loury, G.; Maroja, L.; McWhorter, J.; Moosavi, S.; Schwerdtle, P.N.; Pearl, J.; Quintanilla-Tornel, M.; III, H.S.; Schreiner, P.; Schwerdtfeger, P.; Shechtman, D.; Shifman, M.; Tanzman, J.; Trout, B.; Warshel, A.; West, J. In Defense of Merit in Science. Controversial_Ideas 2023, 3, 1.
Paul, P. (2023, May 4). A Paper That Says Science Should Be Impartial Was Rejected by Major Journals. You Can’t Make This Up. The New York Times.
Sjoding, M. W., Dickson, R. P., Iwashyna, T. J., Gay, S. E., Valley, T. Sl. (2020). Racial bias in pulse oximetry measurement. New England Journal of Medicine, 383: 2477-2478. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc2029240
Obermeyer, Z., Powers, B., Vogeli, C., Mullainathan, S. (2019). Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations. Science 366: 447-453.
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Now that we've discussed anti-fatness in public health, Megan and Linsey talk about anti-fatness in our policies. 
References:
Estimating Deaths Attributable to Obesity in the United States
The obesity wars and the education of a researcher: A personal account
CDC Study Overestimated Deaths from Obesity
Yes, You Can Still Be Fired for Being Fat
State and Local Backgrounders: Soda Taxes by the Urban Institute
 
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