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Half-Truths

Half-Truths

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 Remember that neat, tidy version of history and science you learned in school? The one with brave explorers discovering continents, brilliant inventors having a single "eureka!" moment, and a food pyramid that was definitely going to make you healthy? It turns out, a lot of it was wrong. Welcome to Half-Truths, the show dedicated to unlearning the myths, half-truths, and outright fabrications that have become common knowledge. In each episode, we take one "fact" you thought you knew and trace it back to its source. We'll uncover the surprising context, the political spin, and the often more fascinating truth that got left out of the textbook. This isn't just about trivia; it's about understanding how the stories we're told shape our world. Get ready for the "aha!" moments that will make you see the past—and the present—in a whole new light.Half-Truths Podcast Education Science Social Sciences
Episodes
  • EP63 - Survival of the Fittest: Why Nature Favors the Friendly Over the Strong

    EP63 - Survival of the Fittest: Why Nature Favors the Friendly Over the Strong
    Mar 25 2026
    We have long accepted that evolution is a brutal contest where only the strongest, fastest, and most aggressive survive. But this episode reveals how a Victorian economist hijacked Darwin's theory to justify ruthlessness, and why biological success is actually about fitting in, making friends, and sometimes, just being lazy.
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    21 mins
  • EP62 - Dead Men Don't Sail: The Myth of Magellan's Circumnavigation

    EP62 - Dead Men Don't Sail: The Myth of Magellan's Circumnavigation
    Mar 18 2026
    We were all taught that Ferdinand Magellan was the heroic captain who first circumnavigated the globe, proving the world was round. But the reality is that Magellan died in a chaotic beach skirmish halfway through the voyage, leaving a pardoned mutineer and an enslaved interpreter to actually finish the history-making journey.
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    25 mins
  • EP61 - The Spanish Flu: A Pandemic Born in Kansas and Named by Censorship

    EP61 - The Spanish Flu: A Pandemic Born in Kansas and Named by Censorship
    Mar 11 2026
    The 1918 influenza pandemic killed more people than the Great War it interrupted, and history remembers it as the Spanish Flu. But why was a neutral country blamed for a global catastrophe that likely began in the American Midwest? This episode uncovers how wartime propaganda and censorship allowed the true origin of the virus to escape detection, leaving Spain to take the fall for history's deadliest plague.
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    21 mins
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