Cited
69 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsExperts shape our world. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. In every big story, you’ll find one; you’ll find a researcher, scientist, engineer, planner, policy wonk, data nerd, bureaucrat, regulator, intellectual, or pseudointellectual. Their ideas are often opaque, unrecognized, and difficult to understand. Some of them like it that way. On Cited, we reveal their hidden stories.
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Goodbye from Cited and Hello from Darts & Letters
April 30, 2021 21:36 - 1 hour - 116 MBCited is no more. We had a great run — over 100 episodes of one sort or another, major awards, and stories we are really proud of — but it’s time to move on. Still, Cited’s legacy lives on through the new projects our team makes, including Crackdown and Darts and Letters. Today, we celebrate Cited and … Continue reading Goodbye from Cited and Hello from Darts & Letters →
Darts and Letters: Katichisms
December 24, 2020 00:56 - 1 hour - 106 MB***This concludes our run of playing Darts and Letters on Cited. You will see the occasional episode cross-posted, but not each and every week. So now, if you’ve been listening to Darts and Letters here, it ends! You’ve got to subscribe to the new feed, otherwise you will miss out.*** What’s the matter with Catholics? … Continue reading Darts and Letters: Katichisms →
Darts and Letters: Prison Notebooks
December 20, 2020 18:25 - 1 hour - 56.5 MB***We’re continuing to play the first few episodes of our new show, Darts and Letters. We’ll run this to the holidays. If you like Cited, you’ll like this. So subscribe today.*** I can point you to mountains of research about prisons. I can also recommend at least a dozen Netflix documentaries, and highlight a handful of … Continue reading Darts and Letters: Prison Notebooks →
Darts and Letters: The Conquest of Bread
December 12, 2020 00:14 - 1 hour - 70.7 MB***We’re continuing to play the first few episodes of our new show, Darts and Letters. We’ll run this to the holidays. If you like Cited, you’ll like this. So subscribe today.*** You know McKinsey and Co. They worked for a company that was fixing the price of bread in Canada. They helped on Trump’s immigration policies, … Continue reading Darts and Letters: The Conquest of Bread →
Darts and Letters: Pew Research Center
December 04, 2020 20:44 - 1 hour - 84.2 MB***We’re continuing to play the first few episodes of our new show, Darts and Letters. If you like Cited, you’ll like this. So subscribe today.*** You’ve seen hilarious videos of the evangelicals for Trump. You might be inclined to ignore them, mock their excesses, or dismiss their threat. But the evangelical right is a force to … Continue reading Darts and Letters: Pew Research Center →
Darts and Letters: Trump, interrupted
November 25, 2020 15:15 - 1 hour - 179 MB***We’re continuing to play the first few episodes of our new show, Darts and Letters. If you like Cited, you’ll like this. So subscribe today. We’re now up on all the places.*** We can breathe a sigh of relief with Biden’s victory, but it ain’t time to check out and go to brunch. Because Trumpism is … Continue reading Darts and Letters: Trump, interrupted →
Introducing: Darts and Letters
November 18, 2020 01:43 - 1 hour - 104 MBIntroducing Darts and Letters, a show about intellectuals and the work that they do. But it’s not just for the Ivy crowd, it’s for everyone. Even people who hack darts, and people who wouldn’t be caught dead with a New Yorker tote bag. If you like Cited, you’ll like this. We’ll play the first few on the Cited feed. … Continue reading Introducing: Darts and Letters →
#9: America’s Chernobyl (2 of 2)
August 08, 2020 05:28 - 57 minutes - 78.6 MBHanford is the most-polluted place in America. On our last episode, you heard about the nuclear plant’s largely-forgotten history–how it poisoned the people living downwind. On our season finale: a nuclear safety auditor tries to get it shut down, the downwinders struggle for justice, and we take you into the plant itself. The story of … Continue reading #9: America’s Chernobyl (2 of 2) →
#8: America’s Chernobyl (1 of 2)
July 30, 2020 03:49 - 50 minutes - 69.9 MBRichland, Washington is a company town that sprang up almost overnight in the desert of South Eastern Washington. Its employer is the federal government, and its product is plutonium. The Hanford nuclear site was one of the Manhattan Project sites, and it made the plutonium for the bomb that devastated Nagasaki. Here, the official history … Continue reading #8: America’s Chernobyl (1 of 2) →
#8: America’s Chernobyl
July 30, 2020 03:49Richland, Washington is a company town that sprang up almost overnight in the desert of South Eastern Washington. Its employer is the federal government, and its product is plutonium. The Hanford nuclear site was one of the Manhattan Project sites, and it made the plutonium for the bomb that devastated Nagasaki. Here, the official history … Continue reading #8: America’s Chernobyl →
Secondary Symptoms #8: “Return to Normalcy”
July 27, 2020 23:45 - 1 hour - 105 MBThe phrase “return to normalcy” has been thrown around a lot lately. It’s actually a phrase that was popularized in 1920, in the wake of the WW1 and the Spanish Flu. But, as with the Spanish Flu, “returning to normalcy” means forgetting the conditions that brought us COVID-19, and perhaps even forgetting COVID-19 itself. On … Continue reading Secondary Symptoms #8: “Return to Normalcy” →
The Heroin Clinic (Rebroadcast)
July 16, 2020 20:16 - 47 minutes - 65.4 MBAt Crosstown Clinic, doctors are turning addiction treatment on its head: they’re prescribing heroin-users the very drug they’re addicted to. This is the story of one clinic’s quest to remove the harms of addiction, without removing the addiction itself. ———-PROGRAMMING NOTE———- This is one of the best episodes in our archive. It was broadcast March … Continue reading The Heroin Clinic (Rebroadcast) →
Secondary Symptoms #7: Medical Imaginaries
July 08, 2020 21:30 - 53 minutes - 73.7 MBOur whirlwind tour of the pharmaceutical industry ends this week. We’ve shown you the dysfunction, now we look for a better way. For some reason, the political vision is so curtailed here. Where is the manifesto for a new system? Even on the Bernie wing of the left, much of the focus is on negotiating … Continue reading Secondary Symptoms #7: Medical Imaginaries →
#7: The Poison Paradigm
July 03, 2020 03:29 - 55 minutes - 76.7 MBOn a daily basis, we are exposed to thousands of toxic chemicals. This is no accident; it is by design. They are everywhere – coating our consumer products, in our food packaging, being dumped into our lakes and sewers, and in countless other places. However, for the most part, regulators say that we need not … Continue reading #7: The Poison Paradigm →
Secondary Symptoms #6: Pandemic Fat Cats
June 25, 2020 23:49 - 1 hour - 92.4 MBThere’s another coronavirus. This one, causing horrific swelling in cats, even killing them. Gilead Pharmacueticals might have a drug that can cure this feline coronavirus. Yet, they’re not sharing that drug, possibly because they’re scared it might harm their chances with another drug: Remdesivir. You may have heard of it; it’s the supposed ‘gold standard’ … Continue reading Secondary Symptoms #6: Pandemic Fat Cats →
#6: The Tamiflu Trials
June 17, 2020 22:59 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MBMedical experts are rushing to see which drugs might help treat COVID-19. There are dozens of candidates: Remdesivir, Hydroxycloroquin, Actemra, Kevzara, Favipiravir, the list goes on. They better pick the right one; because billions of dollars of public money is at stake, not to mention 100s of thousands — if not millions — of lives. … Continue reading #6: The Tamiflu Trials →
What are Canadian Police (Still) Trying to Hide? (Rebroadcast with Update)
June 12, 2020 15:09 - 57 minutes - 78.9 MBIn the wake of George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis, millions of protesters around the world have marched against racism and police violence. In Canada, we know that Indigenous and Black bodies are incarcerated at far higher rates than their white counterparts, despite making up a minority of the country’s population. But when it comes to … Continue reading What are Canadian Police (Still) Trying to Hide? (Rebroadcast with Update) →
Secondary Symptoms #5: I Can’t Breathe
June 06, 2020 16:17 - 1 hour - 84.5 MBThe brutal public lynching of George Floyd has sparked a rebellion against police violence and systematic racism. The mostly peaceful protests are courageously rising up, while the police respond with unrelenting force. This all-out war against the American people tells us much about the government’s priorities; while nurses struggle to get basic protective equipment to … Continue reading Secondary Symptoms #5: I Can’t Breathe →
The Battle of Buxton (Rebroadcast)
May 27, 2020 23:33 - 30 minutes - 41.6 MBThe town of Buxton, North Carolina loves their lighthouse. But in the 1970s, the ocean threatened to swallow it up. For the next three decades, they fought an intense political battle over what to do. Fight back against the forces of nature, or retreat? It’s a small preview of what’s to come in a time … Continue reading The Battle of Buxton (Rebroadcast) →
Secondary Symptoms #4: The Covid Kings
May 23, 2020 14:05 - 56 minutes - 77.8 MBThis week, we put the pieces together and solve a different kind of mystery at the heart of Tiger King. I liked the show so much because it felt like the escapism I needed during a brutal pandemic. But actually, it wasn’t escapist at all. Because according to our best theories, Covid-19 is the result … Continue reading Secondary Symptoms #4: The Covid Kings →
#5: Made of Corn
May 20, 2020 05:43 - 42 minutes - 58.7 MBWhen genetically modified corn was found in the highlands of Mexico, Indigenous campesino groups took to the streets to protect their cultural heritage, setting off a 20-year legal saga. ———-PROGRAMMING NOTE———- This two of our series on genetically modified maize. If you haven’t already, listen to the first episode first. You can find it in … Continue reading #5: Made of Corn →
#4: Modifying Maize
May 13, 2020 04:02 - 53 minutes - 73.2 MBHow the accidental finding of genetically modified corn in the highlands of Mexico set off a twenty-year battle over scientific methods, academic freedom, Indigenous rights, environmental law and international trade. Part one of two. ———-MORE———- This episode has loads more information, citations, and resources. You can find those on our website, citedpodcast.com. Research assistant James … Continue reading #4: Modifying Maize →
Secondary Symptoms #3: Pandemic Amnesia
May 07, 2020 16:44 - 54 minutes - 75 MBLast time we opened up too fast, we paid dearly. There were celebratory parades when Americans thought the 1918 Spanish Flu was over and done with. Unfortunately, the second wave was even worse. So this week on Secondary Symptoms, the secondary symptom we’re looking at… it’s a symptom you might call pandemic amnesia. We’re asking: … Continue reading Secondary Symptoms #3: Pandemic Amnesia →
#3: The Pavillion
May 06, 2020 05:00 - 72.6 MBExpo 1967 was the centrepiece of Canada’s 100th birthday. In a country of only 20 million, 50 million people attended Expo ’67. Amid the crowds and the pageantry, one building stood out. The Indians of Canada Pavilion. This was more than a tall glass tipi. It revealed (at least partly) Canada’s sordid colonial history, and … Continue reading #3: The Pavillion →
#3: The Pavilion
May 06, 2020 05:00 - 52 minutes - 72.6 MBExpo 1967 was the centrepiece of Canada’s 100th birthday. In a country of only 20 million, 50 million people attended Expo ’67. Amid the crowds and the pageantry, one building stood out. The Indians of Canada Pavilion. This was more than a tall glass tipi. It revealed (at least partly) Canada’s sordid colonial history, and … Continue reading #3: The Pavilion →
Exiled: A Year in New York’s Infamous ‘Sex Offender Motel’ (Rebroadcast)
April 29, 2020 18:44 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MBGrowing up, Chris Dum has a morbid fascination with ‘deviant behavior.’ It led him down an unusual career path: he decided to study most reviled people in our society. Sex offenders. But it wasn’t enough to study them from a distance. No, abstract crime statistics or rigorously controlled laboratory experiments would not suffice. Rather, Chris … Continue reading Exiled: A Year in New York’s Infamous ‘Sex Offender Motel’ (Rebroadcast) →
Secondary Symptoms #2: Not So Fast
April 27, 2020 05:00 - 56 minutes - 77.8 MBIt’s going to take a while, but we find glimmers of hope. We speak to Guardian journalist Sumanth Subramanian. He tells the story of one lab’s push for a Covid-19 vaccine, and the promising new technology they’re using. It just might revolutionize vaccine development. But don’t get too excited, because the fastest vaccine ever… well, … Continue reading Secondary Symptoms #2: Not So Fast →
#2: Repeat After Me
April 22, 2020 05:00 - 80.1 MBIn 2011, an American psychologist named Daryl Bem proved the impossible. He showed that precognition — the ability to sense the future — is real. His study was explosive, and shook the very foundations of psychology. ———-FOLLOW CITED———- To keep up with Cited, follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Plus, send us your feedback to … Continue reading #2: Repeat After Me →
Secondary Symptoms #1: Tin Foil Hats Stop Covid
April 17, 2020 02:00 - 53.6 MBWe never planned for this. Cited was going to just make documentaries for you this season, but then the whole world changed. So, we had to change too. For at least the next two months, we’ll be releasing a weekly news-magazine style show about the Covid-19 pandemic. We’re calling it Secondary Symptoms. In medicine, secondary … Continue reading Secondary Symptoms #1: Tin Foil Hats Stop Covid →
#1: The Science Wars
April 14, 2020 23:59 - 90.4 MBBefore there was the War on Science, there were the Science Wars. In the 1990’s, the Science Wars were a set of debates about the nature of science and its place in a democratic society. This little-known and long-forgotten academic squabble became surprisingly contentious, culminating in an audacious hoax. Today, some scholars say the Science … Continue reading #1: The Science Wars →
#0: Technocracy and its Discontents (Season Preview)
April 09, 2020 12:58 - 14 MBThe Obama years were the closest thing we’ve had to technocracy. The President and his administration celebrated science and expertise, and they gave enormous regulatory powers to ‘the smartest people.’ During these years, the prevailing posture — culturally, politically, and within academia — suggested that the public was dim-witted and irrational, but well-meaning experts could … Continue reading #0: Technocracy and its Discontents (Season Preview) →
Introducing Crackdown, plus an update
November 19, 2019 00:39Introducing our new show, Crackdown. Plus, a Cited update.
Update: Cited is on Break
October 05, 2018 17:39We would usually be back in the fall for a new season. However, we're not coming back this time. We're taking a break. We'll be back fall 2019.
#64: Site C and High Modernity
March 16, 2018 16:10In British Columbia, energy experts want to transition off of fossil fuels. We look at B.C.’s indigenous history to ask whether the province can decarbonize and decolonize at the same time.
#63: The Battle of Buxton
February 01, 2018 02:58The town of Buxton, North Carolina loves their lighthouse. But in the 1970s, the ocean threatened to swallow it up. For the next three decades, they fought an intense political battle over what to do. Fight back against the forces of nature, or retreat?
#62: The Invisible Climate Migrants
December 13, 2017 02:38On today’s show we meet two Bangladeshi Canadians whose stories speak to the unequal way climate change is felt around the world. UPenn Sociologist Daniel Aldana Cohen talks about his hopes and fears for a warming planet.
#61: The Ongoing Cultural Genocide of Indigenous Canadians
November 23, 2017 16:10Many indigenous leaders say Canada’s foster care system is a continuation of cultural genocide against their people. We tell the story of one BC community’s struggle to wrest control from the government, and reinstall indigenous child welfare.
#60: The Spotted Owl or: How the Right Won the Working Class
November 17, 2017 16:10Judi Bari’s effort to ally forest workers and environmentalists could have changed the course of climate activism forever. Could her parable help us today?
#59: Why are Vancouver's Hospitals Getting More Violent?
November 09, 2017 16:10This week Cited partners with Travis Lupick, reporter and editor with The Georgia Straight, to uncover a worrying trend in Vancouver’s health care system.
#58: Stanford Seniors Village: The Patients And The Profit
October 26, 2017 16:10More and more, Canada is outsourcing its elder care to for-profit companies. On this week’s episode, Sam goes to Stanford Seniors Village to investigate what that means for some of the country’s most vulnerable citizens.
#57: Just a Theory: Theoretical Physics' Crisis of Evidence
October 13, 2017 16:10An Austrian philosopher wants to change the scientific method, removing the need for experimental evidence in certain cases. Not everyone is a fan of his ideas.
#56: ‘Managed Retreat’ from the Rising Seas
October 04, 2017 02:27Finn Slough is on the front lines of climate change. Nestled on the banks of the Fraser River, this community will eventually be overcome by flooding as sea levels rise. But the people of Finn Slough are doing what they can to stay put.
#55: The Story Behind America's Mass Incarceration Experiment
September 27, 2017 16:10In the late 1960s, criminologists like Todd Clear predicted America would soon start closing its prisons. They couldn’t have been more wrong.
#54: Are We Alone?
September 06, 2017 00:39Jill Tarter has spent her career on a question she may never solve: are we alone in the universe?
#53: What are Canadian Police Trying to Hide?
June 08, 2017 16:10Researchers and activists say the racial discrimination within the Canadian criminal justice system could be just as bad as the United States. Canadian police forces refuse to provide the statistics to find out. What are they hiding?
#52: (In)secure: The Future of Working
June 02, 2017 16:10Gordon moderates a live panel about precariousness, millennials, and the future of work in North America. Special guests: Henry Siu, Ashley Proctor, Rod Mickleburgh, Ambrosia Vertesi, and Byron Cruz.
#51: Women Engineers and What They Put Up With (Collaboration with Inquiring Minds)
May 24, 2017 16:10This week, Alex and Indre Viskontas (from Inquiring Minds) survey the state of women in engineering with Andrea Beaty, Amy Bix, Monique Ross, and Patricia Galloway.
#50: Plumbing STEM's Leaky Pipeline (Collaboration with Inquiring Minds)
May 17, 2017 16:10There are too few women in STEM fields. We’ve known that for a long time, but we don’t really know why that is.
#49: Into the House of Old
May 11, 2017 16:10Gordon talks to Andrew Longhurst, research associate at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, about austerity and seniors care in British Columbia. Then, Megan Davies on the history of old folks homes.
#48: How To Buy A Politician
May 03, 2017 16:10The New York Times has called British Columbia “The Wild West of Political Cash.” On the verge of a provincial election, any corporation, union or individual in the world can give however much money they want to BC's provincial political parties.