We're joined today by Dr. Aaron Goodman, a hematologist/oncologist at the University of California San Diego, to talk about calling out an unethical clinical trial, Melflufen, and academic oncology.

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We're joined by Dr. Bapu Jena of Harvard Medical School to talk about his show, Freakonomics, M.D., and his career at the intersection of economics and medicine.

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We have three topics for you today: We talk about our recent paper on the use of second-line immunotherapy in kidney cancer, the controversy over whether a cancer clinical trial was unethical, and the results of the randomized clinical trial CASSIOPEIA.

Kidney Cancer: doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.24728

CASSIOPEIA doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(21)00428-9

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Today we have an interview with Dr. Zeb Jamrozik, an infectious disease bioethicist at the Monash Bioethics Centre and the University of Oxford. We talk about COVID-19 health policy and where we went wrong, speaking specifically from the values framework of health, fairness, and freedom.

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We have a summary of our thoughts for you on recent news about COVID. We discuss the prospect of FDA authorization of a Moderna booster, 8 lessons for health policy in times of crisis, updates on myocarditis data from Israel and Europe, how our experiences with COVID warn us of the possible end to democracy, how progressivism is dead, why social media should not censor views, the CDC's new masking studies, the slogan "follow the science", weekly testing of vaccinated college students who don't have symptoms, the survival of science after COVID, and the question of requiring a booster to follow the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

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On today's episode we're joined by a number of special guests: Dr. Christopher Booth and Dr. Adam Fundytus of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Dr. Manju Sengar of the Tata Memorial Centre, and Dr. Aaron Goodman of the University of California at San Diego. We talk about their new papers: "Access to cancer medicines deemed essential by oncologists in 82 countries: an international, cross-sectional survey", "Practicing on the edge of oncology: when standard of care feels uncomfortable", and "Has the Current Oncology Value Paradigm Forgotten Patients’ Time? Too Little of a Good Thing".

Cancer Medicines: doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(21)00463-0

Edge of Oncology: doi.org/10.1038/s41571-021-00550-9

Value Paradigm: doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2021.3600

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On today's episode, in honor of him and in recognition of his passing, we have an old interview with Dr. Elihu Estey of the University of Washington on his 40 years of experience as an oncologist, the "Renaissance" of drugs for leukemia, and advice for trainees on how to approach career goals. This interview originally aired as episode 1.49. He will be missed.

This week we take a break from #zercovid to give you another episode that's a deep dive into COVID-19. We start with an interview with epidemiologist and infectious disease expert Dr. Daniel Morgan of the University of Maryland School of Medicine; we talk about cognitive errors in medical decision-making and how it relates to COVID-19 health policy. After that, we have a series of thoughts for you on COVID vaccine mandates for schools, President Biden's vaccine plan, the FDA's vote on boosters, John Ioannidis' new paper on vaccinating students, the Pfizer results for vaccines in kids 5-11, and accepting that COVID is here to stay.

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Today we take a brief break from our #zerocovid mantra to offer you our thoughts on current events. We cover a variety of topics, including: medical doctors in academia, cancelling conferences even for the vaccinated, masking 2-year-olds, equipoise, the CDC Georgia study, myocarditis, booster shots, outdoor masking at Duke, no more zero COVID in Australia, the Bangladesh cluster RCT on masks and its implications for kids in the USA, the resignation of two senior FDA officials, LA schools mandating vaccines, vaccinating college students, and more.

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Today's episode is a lecture our host, Dr. Vinay Prasad of University of California San Francisco, gave recently on censoring patients in Kaplan-Meier plots.

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