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For many farmers in rural 1990s China, it seemed like a godsend: new businesses promised to pay a full month's wage for just a few hours donating plasma. The Plasma Economy campaign swept the nation, making blood brokers and biotech companies tons of cash... and then the reports started arriving: multiple small communitites suddenly had HIV and hepatitis. What went wrong? Tune in to learn more.
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The Disappearance of Frederick Valentich
CLASSIC: The Modern Vampire: Longer Life Through Younger Blood
Strange News: The Nashville Toe Sucker, the Canadian Drug Pop-up, and the Rise of Three-Parent Kids
A Bridge in Scotland Kills Dogs
Listener Mail: Spy Balloons Have a "Season," A Temporal Tizzy, and What Happens When Banks Fail
Wrongful Conviction, with Jason Flom
CLASSIC: How The US Secretly Tracked UFOs with Jeremy Corbell
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La Llorona is Older Than You Think
CLASSIC: Cryptocurrency Conspiracies, Part II
Michael Talks to Errbody, with Michael Colyar
CLASSIC: Cryptocurrency Conspiracies, Part I
CLASSIC: Is someone using sonic weapons in Cuba?
The Strange Case of Benjaman Kyle
Listener Mail: Smurfs and CERN, A Possible Cult in LA, and Solving Wartime UFOs
The Houston, Texas Lovers' Lane Murders
CLASSIC: Hollywood’s Abuse Epidemic
Strange News: Baby Powder and Voting Lawsuits; Deputies Plan Murders; US Feds Arrest Leaders of 'Secret Chinese Police Stations'
Listener Mail: The Psychedelic Devil's Bread, Invasive Species and Q Hydrogen
Astroturf and Cancer
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