Why Should I Trust You?

By Brinda Adhikari, Tom Johnson, Maggie Bartlett, Dr. Mark Abdelmalek

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Bold, unfiltered, and uncompromisingly honest, Why Should I Trust You?  is a weekly podcast that looks at the breakdown in trust for science and public health. It drops every Thursday, with occasional additional special episodes sprinkled in.

Hosted by Brinda Adhikari, the former executive producer of
“The Problem with Jon Stewart” and a former TV news journalist; Tom Johnson, the former executive producer of “The Circus,” and also a former TV news journalist; Dr. Maggie Bartlett, a virologist and assistant research professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and Dr. Mark Abdelmalek a skin cancer surgeon, a medical journalist and a dermatologist practicing in Philadelphia -  each week we try to figure out what is behind this staggering collapse in trust and see if we can rebuild towards trust again. 


Episode Date
Dr. Francis Collins w MAHA Supporters & Public Health: A Conversation About Faith, Vaccines, & Trust in Experts
Dec 04, 2025
Thanksgiving Day Special: We Each Talk About An Episode That Stuck With Us
Nov 27, 2025
On Shared Reality, Epstein & Epistemic Collapse: A Conversation w Eliot Higgins, Emily Jashinsky & Astead Herndon
Nov 20, 2025
CHD Part 3 of 3: Reflections from the WSITY Team + Conversations w MAHA Parents About Being At CHD
Nov 13, 2025
Children's Health Defense Series Part 2 of 3: A Lively Conversation w Major MAHA Figure Del Bigtree
Nov 11, 2025
Live from Children's Health Defense Part 1 of 3: A Conversation w Dr. Bret Weinstein, Dr. Pierre Kory and Dr. Craig Spencer
Nov 09, 2025
School Vaccine Requirements: Are We Even Talking About This The Right Way? A Conversation w Sociologist Jennifer Reich
Nov 06, 2025
Election Day Special: Public Health Needs to Get Off the Mat & Join the Political Fight. A Conversation w Dr. Craig Spencer
Nov 04, 2025
A Yale Researcher & A MAHA Organizer Team Up for East Palestine, Ohio: A Conversation w Nicole Deziel, Elizabeth Frost & Stuart Day
Oct 30, 2025
It's Not Me, It's My Algorithm: A Conversation w Claire Wardle About Breaking Through Our Echo Chambers
Oct 23, 2025
Special Episode: A Conversation with MAHA Moms & Science Communicators About Autism
Oct 18, 2025
How Big Is The Support For MAHA Really? The Numbers Are In! We Talk w Pollster Erica Seifert & MAHA Supporter Aaron Everitt
Oct 16, 2025
Public Health Is Outgunned: A Conversation w Science Communicators Katelyn Jetelina and Jessica Steier
Oct 09, 2025
On Medical Freedom, DEI, RFK Jr. & Free Speech: A Conversation w Author Coleman Hughes
Oct 02, 2025
Special: A Talk w Gen Z: Voices From MAHA, Public Health, Conservative, Liberal, Independent - On A Path Forward For Health In America
Sep 26, 2025
The President's Announcement On Tylenol & Autism: Discussing It w A Pregnant Mother & A Pediatrician
Sep 25, 2025
The Hepatitis B Birth Dose Vaccine: Do We Need It? An Honest Conversation w Dr. Paul Offit & Dr. Michael Mina
Sep 18, 2025
Special Ep: A Lively Discussion w Farmers, Journalists, & Advocates -- MAHA & Others -- About Farming Our Country's Food
Sep 16, 2025
Special Ep: Following the Murder of Charlie Kirk, Is Engaging In Civil Disagreement Worth it? We Chat w Aaron, Elizabeth & Craig
Sep 11, 2025
Kennedy's Health Plan for America + Do Black Americans Feel Seen By MAHA? A Conversation w Dr. Michael Forde
Sep 11, 2025
A Conversation With The Three CDC Leaders Who Resigned In Protest & MAHA Supporters
Sep 04, 2025
How Corporations Fuel Our Chronic Disease Crisis: A Conversation w Public Health Researcher Anna Gilmore
Aug 28, 2025
A Conversation w Fox News Medical Correspondent Dr. Marc Siegel On mRNA, RFK Jr, & On Reaching People
Aug 21, 2025
Bonus Episode! A Conversation w Former FDA Chief David Kessler. Did He Just Give RFK Jr a Tool to Fight the Food Industry?
Aug 18, 2025
MAHA-Public Health Conversation #6: On Food, On Nutrition, On Government, & On the Shooting at the CDC
Aug 14, 2025
Sunday Special: A Conversation w Neil deGrasse Tyson & Scott Hamilton Kennedy On Science, Tribalism and Truth
Aug 10, 2025
A CDC Director-palooza: A Candid Conversation w Two Former CDC Chiefs Drs. Tom Frieden & Mandy Cohen
Aug 07, 2025
Special: Leading MAHA Activist Zen Honeycutt, On Her Anger At the EPA + On Cuts to Science. Is This What MAHA Wants?
Aug 01, 2025
What's A Conspiracy Theory Anyway? We Talk UFOs, Gov't Secrets & Journalism w Two WSJ Reporters
Jul 31, 2025
Kevin Hall Is Still Ultra Processing: On Leaving NIH, On MAHA, On Food in America
Jul 24, 2025
A Revealing Conversation btwn MAHA, Doctors & Journalists On Trust In Media, In RFK Jr & In Experts
Jul 17, 2025
A Conversation w Dr. Francis Collins On Reforming NIH, Cuts to Research, MAHA, & On Trust
Jul 10, 2025
Lessons From the 1980s AIDS Crisis and Applying It To Today: A Conversation w Dr. Reed Tuckson
Jul 03, 2025
Fired ACIP Members Speak To Us On the Future of Vaccines + Dr. Michael Mina On A 'Code Red' Moment
Jun 26, 2025
The Medicaid Axe is About To Fall. We Asked a Group of MAHA, MAGA & Independent Parents to Weigh In
Jun 19, 2025
Why Does the Phrase “mRNA” Rip Americans Apart? We Chat w Nobel-Prize Winning Scientist Drew Weissman
Jun 12, 2025
Special: MAHA Georgia & Public Health In a Spirited Discussion On the Legacy of the Covid Vaccine
Jun 10, 2025
Can Nuance On Raw Milk Boost Vaccine Uptake? A Conversation On Data & Messaging w Emily Oster
Jun 05, 2025
Searching for the Causes of Autism: A Conversation with Two Moms, Alison Singer and Nancy Fuller
May 29, 2025
On Trust in Biden, Media, Politicians & On Aging: A Conversation with CNN's Jake Tapper
May 22, 2025
Special: MAHA Meets w Public Health, the 2nd Conversation: On RFK Jr., Vaccines, Corporate Influence, & More
May 20, 2025
Why Americans Are Turning to the Paranormal—and What That Says About Trust, w Author Matt Hongoltz-Hetling
May 15, 2025
Special Ep: We Talk COVID.Gov, Lab Leaks & Raccoon Dogs w Paul Offit, Maciek Boni & David Wallace Wells
May 11, 2025
Inside A Rare Conversation Between MAHA Grassroots and Public Health Leaders
May 08, 2025
Can Dems Be the Party of Health in an Age of RFK Jr.’s MAHA? A Conversation w Sen. Maggie Hassan
May 01, 2025
How to Reach People in Today's New Media Amid a Crisis of Mistrust. A Conversation with Emily Jashinsky
Apr 24, 2025
A Writer's Journey w a Rare Disease Led Her to Champion Obamacare & Democrats. Why She Is Now a MAGA Supporter.
Apr 17, 2025
Special Ep: A Conversation with Dr. Peter Marks on Vaccine Safety, Trust, and the True Scope of the Measles Outbreak
Apr 11, 2025
Wendell Potter, A Health Insurance Exec Turned Whistleblower, On Blowing Up Our System
Apr 10, 2025
What's the End Game? We Talk Massive Remaking of HHS with Gov't Reformer Jennifer Pahlka
Apr 03, 2025
America’s Funding Cuts Chaos + Are We the Next No-Lockdown Sweden? We Chat with Anders Tegnell
Mar 27, 2025
On Measles: Vaccines vs Vitamin A. Plus, What Marion Nestle Says Public Health Is Getting Wrong
Mar 20, 2025
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Big Pharma? We Ask a Bioethicist
Mar 13, 2025
Censorship vs. Science: The Fight Over Free Speech That Is Tearing Us Apart
Mar 06, 2025
MAGA + MAHA: How Will This Work Exactly? We Speak With Journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon
Feb 27, 2025
Measles, Pharma and Mistrust: A Conversation with MAHA Moms and Dr. Paul Offit
Feb 20, 2025
Is it True You Can't Sue a Vaccine Manufacturer? We Ask a Vaccine Legal Scholar
Feb 13, 2025
A CIA Declaration, Subpoenas, & Fauci’s Pardon: Why the Lab Leak Debate is Still Raging On
Feb 06, 2025
RFK Jr. Testifies, MAHA Flexes, and Public Health Panics
Jan 30, 2025
The Trump and (Likely) RFK Jr. Era is Here. And Paul Offit Won't Back Down.
Jan 23, 2025
Special Episode: A Conversation with Dr. John Ioannidis
Jan 20, 2025
Why We Can't Stop Talking About Ivermectin
Jan 16, 2025
How Covid Radicalized Us All
Jan 09, 2025
Trailer! Why Should I Trust You?
Jan 02, 2025