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This, Again

This, Again

De : Mallory Faust
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You may think you know these stories, but not like this. This, Again is where historical disasters, delusions, downfalls, and déjà vu collide with human psychology. From palace scandals, space shuttle explosions, nightclub fires to witch trials, host Mallory Faust takes the moments in history you thought you understood and reveals the blind spots, egos, and eerie echoes you missed. It’s darkly funny, sharp, and empathetic - and it just might change how you see the past repeating in real time.

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  • Who Gets to be Believed? The Navy Surgeon Who Wasn't, The Forgotten Fossil Hunter, and The Man Who Discovered Hand-Washing

    Who Gets to be Believed? The Navy Surgeon Who Wasn't, The Forgotten Fossil Hunter, and The Man Who Discovered Hand-Washing
    Jun 19 2026

    Who gets to be believed?

    A fake doctor performs surgery without a medical degree. A fossil hunter makes discoveries that reshape science but struggles to be taken seriously. A physician uncovers a lifesaving medical practice, only to be ignored by much of the medical establishment.

    This week, we explore the strange and often uncomfortable gap between expertise and credibility. Why do some people earn trust they haven't earned, while others struggle to be heard despite being right? From impostors and overlooked experts to the psychology of authority itself, this episode examines how humans decide who deserves to be believed.

    Attribution Notes:

    • Every effort was made to cross-check primary sources and modern research. Where paraphrasing is used, it’s drawn from the texts below with narrative license for clarity and flow.
    • If you spot an error or have a source to suggest, DM @thisagainshow

    Follow This, Again on Instagram: @thisagainshow

    This, Again is written, produced, and hosted by Mallory Faust.

    Semmelweis, Ignaz. The Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever. Translated by K. Codell Carter. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983 (original publication 1861).

    Carter, K. Codell. Childbed Fever: A Scientific Biography of Ignaz Semmelweis. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1995.

    Nuland, Sherwin B. The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.

    Semmelweis, Ignaz. The Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever. Translated by K. Codell Carter. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.

    Best, M., and D. Neuhauser. "Ignaz Semmelweis and the Birth of Infection Control." Quality and Safety in Health Care 13, no. 3 (2004): 233–234.

    https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/13/3/233

    Nuland, Sherwin B. The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.

    Carter, K. Codell. Childbed Fever: A Scientific Biography of Ignnaz Semmelweis. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1995.

    Gillispie, Charles Coulston, ed. Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 12. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. Entry: "Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp."

    Emling, Shelley. The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

    Torrens, Hugh. Mary Anning of Lyme Regis: Fossilist. Bournemouth: British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995.

    Goodhue, Thomas W. Fossil Hunter: The Life and Times of Mary Anning (1799–1847). Bethesda, MD: Academica Press, 2004.

    Crichton, Robert. The Great Impostor. New York: Random House, 1959.
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    31 min
  • Assassinations and Accessibility: Mckinley, JFK, Reagan, & Shinzo Abe

    Assassinations and Accessibility: Mckinley, JFK, Reagan, & Shinzo Abe
    Jun 10 2026
    After every assassination, the same questions seem to follow. How did this happen? Why wasn't it prevented? What warning signs did people miss? From William McKinley in 1901 to John F. Kennedy in 1963, Ronald Reagan in 1981, and Shinzo Abe in 2022, each attack exposed vulnerabilities that suddenly seemed obvious in hindsight. Security systems changed. Procedures evolved. New lessons were learned. But what if the deeper story isn't about the attacks themselves? In this episode, we explore how societies learn from catastrophe, why institutions often become experts at preventing the last disaster, and what psychologists call the availability heuristic: our tendency to focus on the risks we can easily imagine while overlooking the ones we can't. Because the future rarely arrives in the form we expect. And sometimes the most important blind spots are hiding inside assumptions that feel perfectly reasonable today. Attribution Notes: Every effort was made to cross-check primary sources and modern research. Where paraphrasing is used, it’s drawn from the texts below with narrative license for clarity and flow.If you spot an error or have a source to suggest, DM @thisagainshow Follow This, Again on Instagram: @thisagainshow This, Again is written, produced, and hosted by Mallory Faust. Sources and Further Reading: William McKinley Merry, Robert W. President McKinley: Architect of the American Century. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017. Library of Congress – William McKinley Papers https://www.loc.gov/collections/william-mckinley-papers/about-this-collection/ Miller, Scott. The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century. New York: Random House, 2011. John F. Kennedy Blaine, Gerald, and Lisa McCubbin. The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence. New York: Gallery Books, 2010. President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy. Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964. National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report Ronald Reagan Wilber, Del Quentin. Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan. New York: Henry Holt, 2011. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum https://www.reaganlibrary.gov Shinzo Abe BBC News – Shinzo Abe assassination coverage https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62089486 https://www.bbc.com/news/62095447 National Police Agency of Japan https://www.npa.go.jp/english/ Psychology, Risk & Organizational Learning Availability Heuristic Tversky, Amos, and Daniel Kahneman. "Availability: A Heuristic for Judging Frequency and Probability." Cognitive Psychology 5, no. 2 (1973): 207–232. https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0285(73)90033-9 High Reliability Organizations Weick, Karl E., and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe. Managing the Unexpected: Sustained Performance in a Complex World. 3rd ed. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2015. Publisher: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119175834?msockid=205e866215186a7d34b4951214346b54 Normal Accident Theory Perrow, Charles. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7srgf Organizational Failure & Challenger Vaughan, Diane. The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo22781921.html Horizon Scanning & Future Risk National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Enhancing Horizon Scanning and Foresight Capacity of the Federal Government. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2020. Free Full Report: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25729/enhancing-horizon-scanning-and-foresight-capacity-of-the-federal-government Black Swan Events Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. 2nd ed. New York: Random House, 2010. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/176226/the-black-swan-by-nassim-nicholas-taleb/
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  • Pocahontas, Galileo, and Isaac Newton: Why We Change the Stories (1600s)

    Pocahontas, Galileo, and Isaac Newton: Why We Change the Stories (1600s)
    May 21 2026
    This week on This, Again, we look at three figures from the 1600s whose stories became cleaner, simpler, and easier to pass down over time: Galileo GalileiPocahontasIsaac Newton Galileo becomes the ultimate symbol of science versus religion, even though the reality was tangled up in politics, ego, public pressure, and institutional instability. Pocahontas becomes a romantic bridge between worlds, despite the fact that much of her life survives only through English interpretation, political messaging, and a story later generations softened into something easier to emotionally live with. Newton becomes the image of effortless genius, reduced to an apple falling from a tree, while the obsessive, competitive, deeply complicated person underneath that myth slowly fades into the background. But this episode isn’t really about “debunking” history. It’s about asking why stories evolve this way in the first place. Do we simplify history because we’re trying to manipulate people? Or because human beings naturally remember stories better when they feel emotionally organized and easy to carry forward? And at what point does simplification stop being an introduction… and quietly become the final version? This episode explores historiography, memory, narrative psychology, and the uncomfortable reality that most of us were probably taught the first layer of history… without ever being brought back for the second one. Attribution Notes: Every effort was made to cross-check primary sources and modern research. Where paraphrasing is used, it’s drawn from the texts below with narrative license for clarity and flow.If you spot an error or have a source to suggest, DM @thisagainshow Follow This, Again on Instagram: @thisagainshow This, Again is written, produced, and hosted by Mallory Faust. Galileo Galileo Galilei. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. Translated by Stillman Drake. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft1t1nb0d5&chunk.id=d0e180&brand=ucpressGalileo Galilei. The Essential Galileo. Edited and translated by Maurice A. Finocchiaro. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2008. https://hackettpublishing.com/the-essential-galileoFinocchiaro, Maurice A. Retrying Galileo, 1633–1992. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/retrying-galileo/paper Heilbron, J. L. Galileo. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Galileo - John L. Heilbron - Oxford University PressVatican Observatory. “The Galileo Affair.” https://www.vaticanobservatory.org/education/the-galileo-affair/ Pocahontas John Smith. The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624). https://archive.org/details/generallhistorie00smit Camilla Townsend. Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780809077380/pocahontasandthepowhatandilemmaNational Park Service. “Pocahontas.” Jamestown Colonial National Historical Park. https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/pocahontas-her-life-and-legend.htmEncyclopaedia Britannica. “Pocahontas.” https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pocahontas-Powhatan-woman Helen C. Rountree. Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2782/William Apess. A Son of the Forest and Other Writings. Edited by Barry O’Connell. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. https://www.umasspress.com/9781558491076/a-son-of-the-forest-and-other-writings/ Newton Isaac Newton. The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520088177/the-principia Richard S. Westfall. Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/never-at-rest/45515EFB2D1A3B1D8764A3558D3A4E4B Patricia Fara. Newton: The Making of Genius. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/newton/9780231128063The Royal Society. “Newton and Leibniz: The Calculus Controversy.” https://royalsociety.org/blog/2015/02/newton-leibniz-calculus-dispute/ Gleick, James. Isaac Newton. New York: Pantheon Books, 2003. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/295742/isaac-newton-by-james-gleick/ Historiography / Philosophy / Historical Memory E. H. Carr. What Is History? New York: Vintage Books, 1961. https://archive.org/details/whatishistory00ehca Hayden White. Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973. https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/metahistory Michel Foucault. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980. https://monoskop.org/images/5/5d/...
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