Whistleblowers

In the 1990s, China’s poorest communities could make good money by selling their blood to government plasma stations. When Dr. Shuping Wang discovered these stations were the source of a Hepatitis C epidemic, she thought things couldn’t get any worse. But then she realized the blood banks were spreading an even deadlier virus to the country’s poorest people. When she spoke up, she paid dearly.

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In 2020, Facebook employee Frances Haugen came across shocking internal reports. Reports suggesting that Facebook’s platforms could be far more dangerous than the public realized. Reports that mentioned teen suicide, human trafficking, and even genocide. Reports that Frances would go on to share with the world. This is the story of one woman’s battle with one of the most powerful companies on the planet. 

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Dr. Oscar Simonson had great hopes for his future when he started working under famous supersurgeon Paolo Macchiarini. But by the end of their working relationship, Oscar’s career was in ruins, hearts were broken and several lives had been lost forever. Oscar was left asking himself: Was Paolo more con man than genius? This is a story that even the Pope, Elton John, and the Obamas were unwittingly dragged into.

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Bikram Choudhury was once Hollywood’s favorite yoga guru. His life-changing hot yoga classes attracted celebrities like Madonna, Lady Gaga, and David Beckham. But when his closest assistant started to suspect that Bikram wasn’t as holy as he claimed, she started digging. That’s when his true colors started to show… 

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In the fall of 1966, public health worker Peter Buxtun overheard a conversation in the work canteen that changed his life forever. He found out that for the last 30 years, the U.S. government had funded a racist and unethical experiment that had left hundreds of black, Southern men ill or dying. And his colleagues in public health had no plans to shut it down. When Peter set out to discover why, he uncovered the most shocking health scandal in America’s history.

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Have you ever discovered something you wished you hadn’t? A secret… a lie… a crime, even? What if that discovery opened up a Pandora's box of corruption… corruption that was harming hundreds, even thousands of people? And what if sharing that discovery would put you and your family in danger? Would you keep your mouth shut? Or take the risk, and blow the whistle? Whistleblowers is a new Spotify Original from Parcast where we explore some of the most bizarre lies in history, through the eyes of the people who risked everything to expose them. Starting January 18th. New episodes weekly.

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