The House of Pod

RFK Jr. has spent his time as Health Secretary overseeing sweeping changes to America's public health infrastructure — firing vaccine advisors, cutting childhood vaccine recommendations, gutting NIH research grants, and quietly funding a questionable trial in Guinea-Bissau. Now that Democrats have won both the House and the Senate, the leash may finally be tightening.

Dr. Kaveh Hoda is joined by comedian Butch Escobar and Dr. Jason Rosenbaum for the latest entry in their ongoing series on films that broke men's brains. The trio digs into Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) — a movie that proposes to be a cautionary tale about Jordan Belfort's reign of fraud, drugs, and excess, but may have accidentally created a hero ...

Dr. Chad Smith was the only emergency room doctor living in Weaverville, California — the guy you wanted in the room when it mattered most. Then one night, troubled by what he saw on the news and read online, he posted his thoughts on his private Facebook page. The next morning, his hospital fired him.

This week on The House of Pod, Dr. Kaveh Hoda sits down with D...

Before Europe built its universities, before the Renaissance "rediscovered" science, and before the West even had the vocabulary to describe diseases, there was a young man from the Persian heartlands who was diagnosing rulers, running clinical trials, and building a system of knowledge that would dominate European medical schools for over 600 years. His name was Ibn Sina — y...