Unbiased Science

@unbiasedscience · Podcast

Latest segments

• Rabies outbreaks and CDC cuts, 2026-10-28
  Reports the USDA raccoon bait drop
  Walks through testing rates by species and the practical bat-in-the-bedroom rule, then puts on the record a scheduled federal action: the USDA's October raccoon vaccine bait drop over North Carolina. The testing percentages are background; the bait drop is the new item.
• Rabies outbreaks and CDC cuts, 2026-10-28
  Explains the wildlife reservoirs behind the advisory
  Walks through the wildlife reservoirs behind the advisory - bats in all 50 states, foxes in the southwest, skunks in the midwest, raccoons on the east coast - and retells the North Carolina goat cluster as an example of spillover. Background and explanation, no new development.
• Rabies outbreaks and CDC cuts, 2026-10-28
  Adds the CDC's call and treatment volume figures
  Opens the episode by recapping the September CDC alert and adds the agency's own volume figures: rabies-related calls up about 17 percent over last summer, post-exposure shots up about 33 percent and immunoglobulin up 76 percent. Frames the hour with global and U.S. baseline numbers.
• RasenQ's price tag, 2026-10-14
  Recaps the pancreatic cancer trial result
  Runs through broad cancer progress - the 35 percent drop in the US death rate since 1991, 4.8 million fewer deaths, poor survival in pancreatic cancer and glioblastoma - then flags the pancreatic cancer pill that nearly doubled median survival in a phase three trial. A retelling of the RasenQ trial result already on the record.
• Pennsylvania measles outbreak, 2026-10-07
  Interviews a nurse on MMR timing
  Interviews pediatric nurse practitioner Patsy Stinchfield, who goes through MMR timing, vitamin A and adult immunity, and adds a demographic detail from the Pennsylvania outbreak: two-thirds of cases and two of the four deaths are in adults, the reverse of the usual pattern.
• Pennsylvania measles outbreak, 2026-10-07
  Interviews Nuzzo on unpublished CDC deaths
  Interviews the Brown Pandemic Center's Jennifer Nuzzo, who says the CDC did not publish the four measles deaths Pennsylvania reported - the first time she has doubted federal data - and walks through Pennsylvania's 30-day death definition and the CDC's asterisk.