418 — Fake Pubic Hair, FDA Bombshells & the Return of “Retarded”

418 — Fake Pubic Hair, FDA Bombshells & the Return of “Retarded”

Author: Doctor Podcast Network December 29, 2025 Duration: 35:34

This Doctales with Cocktails episode veers from absurd to deadly serious—and back again. What starts with Kim Kardashian’s “Ultimate Bush” spirals into a surprisingly historical discussion of pubic wigs, cultural aesthetics, and performative sexuality. From there, the tone shifts hard as a bombshell FDA letter challenges the foundations of modern vaccine approval, exposing reliance on surrogate endpoints, weak evidence, and ignored harms—especially in children.

The episode then detonates another cultural landmine: the outrage over the word retarded. The conversation digs into how language becomes weaponized, how offense is outsourced, and why words that once described reality are now treated as moral crimes. The show closes on a rare reflective note—contrasting anger-driven discourse with joy, purpose, and meaning—highlighted by the story of a man who skied joyfully for nearly a century.

 

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