The history of medicine goes back to the dawn of mankind when ancient healers used special herbs to treat illnesses.Hippocrates, the father of medicine, laid the foundation for modern medical practice: observation, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. His work set the stage for centuries of medical progress.In the 19th century, Edward Jenner created a smallp ... Show More
Apr 24
When the Government Lies: Aliens, Assassinations and Classified Ops (COMPILATION)
Ready to reach your goals? Visit https://hims.com/THEWHYFILES to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. In 1954, President Eisenhower signed a treaty with extraterrestrial beings — technology in exchange for access to human subjects. The CIA ran classified programs us ... Show More
3h 57m
Apr 20
Basement: Daniel Whiteson | CERN, Dark Matter, and the Aliens Next Door
The Why Files releases video episodes on Spotify every Monday and Friday. And when you become a Spotify Premium subscriber, you get fewer ads – that means more story, less interruption. Daniel Whiteson is a particle physicist at UC Irvine and an active researcher at CERN's Large ... Show More
3h 24m
Apr 13
Basement: Peter Levenda | Nazis, UFOs, and the Hidden History Nobody Tells You
Peter Levenda has spent more than thirty years investigating the connections between occult history, intelligence operations, and the events that shaped the modern world. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Unholy Alliance, the Sinister Forces trilogy, and the S ... Show More
4h 16m
Jul 2024
Raymond Schinazi on revolutionising treatments for killer viruses
In recent decades, we've taken huge steps forward in treating formerly fatal viruses: with pharmacological breakthroughs revolutionising treatment for conditions such as HIV, hepatitis and herpes. Raymond Schinazi has played a big role in that revolution. Ray was born in Egypt, w ... Show More
28m 39s
May 2025
How to Cure What Ails You
<p>Now that we have the ability to see inside the brain without opening anyone's skull, we'll be able to map and define brain activity and peg it to behavior and feelings. Right? Well, maybe not, or maybe not just yet. It seems the workings of our brains are rather too complex an ... Show More
25m 1s
May 2021
Episode 328: The Ripple Effect Podcast (Dr. Richard M. Fleming | The True Origin of SARS-CoV-2)
<p>Dr. Richard M. Fleming is a Physicist, Cardiologist, Biologist, Chemist, Psychologist, author, researcher and more. <br><br>In 1994, Dr. Fleming presented to the American Heart Association his "theory" that cardiovascular disease was due to inflammation. What was theory in 19 ... Show More
2h 8m
Sep 2025
The Life Scientific: Sir Magdi Yacoub
What does it take to earn the nickname, ‘The Leonardo da Vinci of heart surgery’?That's the moniker given to today's guest - a man who pioneered high-profile and often controversial procedures, but also helped drive huge medical progress; carrying out around 2,000 heart transplan ... Show More
26m 29s
Mar 2025
Sir Magdi Yacoub on pioneering heart transplant surgery
What does it take to earn the nickname, ‘The Leonardo da Vinci of heart surgery’?That's the moniker given to today's guest - a man who pioneered high-profile and often controversial procedures, but also helped drive huge medical progress; carrying out around 2,000 heart transplan ... Show More
28m 35s
Aug 2018
078 Healing, Medicine, and Disease
In this episode, we discuss healing and medicine in the ancient Greek world by looking at Asklepios, his healing sanctuaries known as Asklepieia, and the earliest physicians, including Hippokrates of Kos, the Hippokratic School of Medicine, and the Hippokratic Corpus; and bacteri ... Show More
1h 12m