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Control Freaks

Control Freaks

By: Consumer Choice Center
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Control Freaks is an original podcast series by the Consumer Choice Center. Your host, Bill Wirtz, will introduce different impactful personalities to you, that seek to undermine choice and evidence-based policy-making, and replace your choices with theirs.

Season One, Enemy of the Truth, will debut July 23, 2025.

 Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Episode 4: Tell us how you really feel

    Episode 4: Tell us how you really feel
    Aug 13 2025

    Finale. We're discussing what we've heard with Yaël Ossowski, Deputy Director at the Consumer Choice Center. Does RFK Jr. believe what he says? What the regulatory and political ramifications of his actions going forward?

    Released on August 13, 2025.

    More resources of the Deliver For Patients campaign: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/deliver-for-patients/

    Check out our weekly podcast ConsEUmer: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/conseumer/

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    57 mins
  • Episode 3: Food for thought

    Episode 3: Food for thought
    Aug 6 2025

    In our third episode, we take on RFK's views on food and agriculture. Are GMOs actually bad for you, and what is the use and chemistry surrounding pesticides?

    Act One : A brief history of incredible progress

    Act Two : Bust a myth

    Act Three : Natural-ness

    Our guests in this episode:

    • Dr. Liza Lockwood, Medical Affairs Lead at the Crop Science division of Bayer
    • Cameron English, Director of Bio-Sciences at the American Council on Science and Health, host of the Science, Facts & Fallacies podcast
    • Scott Hamilton Kennedy, documentary filmmaker

    Released on August 6, 2025.

    More resources of the Deliver For Patients campaign: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/deliver-for-patients/

    Check out our weekly podcast ConsEUmer: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/conseumer/

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    40 mins
  • Episode 2: Get me a lawyer

    Episode 2: Get me a lawyer
    Jul 30 2025

    In our second episode, we take a closer look at RFK Jr.'s legal career, the money he is making from anti-vaccine lawsuits, and how judges are required to be the guardians of scientific validity in court.

    Act One : A changing environment

    Act Two : See you in court

    Act Three : Send me an invoice

    Our guests in this episode:

    • Barbara Pfeffer Billauer, PhD, Research Professor of Scientific Statecraft at the Institute of World Politics
    • David Zaruk, editor of The Firebreak

    Released on July 30, 2025.

    More resources of the Deliver For Patients campaign: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/deliver-for-patients/

    Check out our weekly podcast ConsEUmer: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/conseumer/

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    49 mins
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