Joe Ketchum and Andrew Kroepel gather once again to celebrate their shared birthday with the gutting of a sacred cow. This year, Morgan Spurlock’s “Super Size Me” is on the chopping block as they guys get into everything wrong with documentaries who only exist to frighten and manipulate their audience.
Sources for this episode:
Base article for facts:
https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-you-know-about-obesity-is-wrong/
Weight =/= health:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25040597/
Doctor bias:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13679-013-0070-y
Docs spend less time with patients:
https://www.nature.com/articles/0801681
Less emotional rapport:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Physicians%20build%20less%20rapport%20with%20obese%20patients&journal=Obesity&doi=10.1002%2Foby.20384&publication_year=2013&author=Gudzune%2CK&author=Beach%2CM&author=Roter%2CD
Fuck this dude:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hast.114
Thin doctors more confident in weight loss ability:
https://www.nature.com/articles/ijo201333.epdf
Rescue Me:
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0685322/
Kids are assholes:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0193397399800495
Obesity in Media:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22964792/
Organic can’t sustain our population:
https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2017/11/organic-farming-can-feed-the-world-until-you-read-the-small-print/
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