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A narrative podcast about real cases where “facts” fail us—scientific fraud, institutional cover‑ups, media spin, and everyday cons—and the people who fight to uncover what really happened.
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The Montreal Express: Profit Over Pulse (opens the original)
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Inside the operating room, he was nicknamed "The Montreal Express"—a superstar heart surgeon who moved with blinding speed and brought in millions. But behind the billboard ads and pristine state records lay a trail of devastating surgical errors, 21 malpractice settlements, and 14 patient deaths. In this episode of THE ARTIFACT: True Stories of Fraud, Ego, and the Lies We Call Fact, Daniel Walls takes you behind the sterile doors of Catholic Medical Center (CMC) in Manchester, New Hampshire. We
Dana-Farberications: The Knight's Move That Shook Harvard (opens the original)
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How an Amateur Sleuth Exposed a $15M Cancer Research Fraud. When you think of the absolute pinnacle of cancer care, you picture the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute—a multi-billion-dollar Harvard affiliate home to medicine’s elite. But what happens when that gleaming empire is caught copy-and-pasting its research? In this episode, we unpack "Dana-Farberications": the sprawling image-manipulation scandal uncovered by independent molecular biologist Dr. Sholto David. From copied Western blot bands and
The Rise and Fall of Jason Arday: A Catastrophe of Tokenism (opens the original)
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When Cambridge University appointed Jason Arday as its youngest Black professor in 2023, elite academia celebrated a triumphant story of overcoming impossible odds. Three years later, the narrative unraveled into one of the most contentious scandals in British higher education. This episode of The Artifact: True Stories of Fraud, Ego, and the Lies We Call Fact investigates the fabricated data, suppressed plagiarism dossiers, and institutional pressures that paved the way for Arday’s ascent—and t
The Blueprint Betrayal (opens the original)
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Silicon Valley promised to unlock your biology for $99. Instead, 23andMe suffered a massive data breach, collapsed into bankruptcy, and sold off its 15-million-genome database. Explore the full story of Anne Wojcicki, corporate hubris, and the legal illusion of genetic privacy.
The Teflon President - Part 2: The Billion-Dollar Comeback (opens the original)
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In Part 2 of our investigation into Dr. Marc Tessier-Lavigne, the foundation of a glittering academic empire completely collapses. Join Daniel Walls as he traces how anonymous internet sleuths, an 18-year-old freshman reporter, and digital forensic experts dismantled a university president's favorite technical defenses. From unheeded warnings and vanishing raw data to a record-breaking $1 billion AI startup comeback, we examine how elite biotech prestige Ultimately trumps academic accountability
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