Episode 70 - Alice Dreger

On Episode 70, Nick chats with historian of medicine and science, sex researcher, mainstream writer, and (im)patient advocate, Dr. Alice Dreger about her early investigations into the broken medical care system and the intersex rights movement, the story behind her book, Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar’s Search for Justice and the relationship between science and social justice, approaching present-day cancel culture from a nuanced perspective, and her current efforts as founder of the local news organization East Lansing Info to rescue local news in her city and in America more generally.