Revisionist History- The Department of Physiological Hygiene

<p>This is the story of an experiment. It’s from a show I love called <a href="https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history">Revisionist History</a>, by bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell. This season he’s devoting every episode to experiments. There’s the experiment that brought iodized salt to our tables. Another episode looks at a kind of failed social experiment that could have reduced opioid overdoses. Anyway, it’s all fascinating — and the episode we want to share with you is no different.</p><p>Malcolm has discovered a forgotten box of interviews in the archives of the Library of Congress. They tell the story of 36 men who, in 1945, spent a year in a dingy room under the school football stadium. They were part of an experiment none of them would ever forget. And people are still arguing about what happened decades later.</p><p>This is part of a three-part series, and you can hear the rest, and more, by searching for Revisionist History wherever you get your podcasts.</p>