Episode 1
Aired Jul 11, 2017
Adam Ruins Having a Baby
Adam dispels the myth about getting pregnant after 35, delves into breastfeeding vs. formula and explores postpartum depression for women and men.
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Episode 2
Aired Jul 18, 2017
Adam Ruins Weight Loss
Adam Conover illustrates all the reasons low-fat diets make people fatter and why counting calories is a waste of time.
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Episode 3
Aired Jul 25, 2017
Adam Ruins the Hospital
Adam shares how inflated hospital costs created an unfair system, reckless antibiotic prescriptions make them worthless and whether a woman needs a mammogram.
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Episode 4
Aired Aug 1, 2017
Adam Ruins Dating
Adam swipes right on knowledge by exposing the flaws in dating sites; the existence of alpha males (and wolves); personality tests.
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Episode 5
Aired Aug 8, 2017
Adam Ruins Art
Adam poses the question of what makes great art and shows why pieces visible to the masses are revered, regardless of artistic merit; He exposes the masters as copycats and reveals that today's art market is a moneymaking scheme.
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Episode 6
Aired Aug 15, 2017
Adam Ruins What We Learned in School
Adam shows that Columbus didn't discover America, King Tut was a dud and the rules of grammar are not as ironclad as people think.
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Episode 7
Aired Aug 22, 2017
Adam Ruins College
Adam shares why becoming a dropout billionaire is unlikely, how school rankings have little to do with education quality, and student loans.
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Episode 8
Aired Aug 29, 2017
Emily Ruins Adam
Emily debunks IQ tests and points out information Adam has gotten wrong in the past; an explanation of the "backfire effect."
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Episode 9
Aired Sep 19, 2017
Adam Ruins His Vacation
Adam Conover and his girlfriend take a journey across America, where he reveals that Mount Rushmore was built on stolen Native American land, Vegas slot machines are purposely designed to be addicting and more.
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Episode 10
Aired Sep 26, 2017
Adam Ruins the Suburbs
Adam explains how the idealized lawn is an unnatural monstrosity, and that the design of the suburbs slowly kills; how the racist history of suburban planning led to today's institutionalized segregation in schools.
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Episode 11
Aired Oct 3, 2017
Adam Ruins the Economy
Adam explains why lobbying makes filing taxes so complicated, and why the economic numbers that are focused on do not provide the whole story; the possibility of a return of American manufacturing.
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Episode 12
Aired Oct 10, 2017
Adam Ruins Conspiracy Theories
Adam Conover debunks the fake moon landing theory, discusses the Satanic Panic of the 1980s and reveals how to spot a false theory.
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Episode 13
Aired Oct 17, 2017
Adam Ruins Spa Day
Pricey detoxifying treatments cleanse you of cash and may do more harm than good; MSG's scary reputation is undeserved; the placebo effect is way more powerful than you think.
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Episode 14
Aired Oct 24, 2017
Adam Ruins Halloween
Strangers with poisoned candy; the panic over Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast; mediums.
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Episode 15
Aired Oct 31, 2017
Adam Ruins Science
Adam shares the truth behind testing mice, scarce funding and reproducing results.
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Episode 16
Aired Nov 7, 2017
Adam Ruins the Future
Unregulated food expiration dates; 401(k) and retirement; the unpredictable future.
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Episode 17
Aired Mar 20, 2018
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Truth
Adam presents startling facts about George Washington, Paul Revere's overrated ride, and the tale of a slave who helped America win.
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Episode 18
Aired Mar 27, 2018
The First Factsgiving
The Pilgrims did not break bread with Native Americans, but did dig up their graves; no romance existed between Pocahontas and John Smith; cities in the New World rivaled London in scale before their discovery.
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Episode 19
Aired Apr 3, 2018
Mutually Assured Ruination
Adam reveals that the United States kicked off the Cuban Missile Crisis; a lone female politician stands up to Joseph McCarthy; a bureaucratic mistake brings down the Berlin Wall.
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Episode 20
Aired Apr 10, 2018
An Ancient History of Violence
Adam shares that it was against the rules for gladiators to kill opponents; the story of a Celtic woman who brought the Roman Empire to its knees; the brave 300 Spartans number closer to 7,000.
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Episode 21
Aired Apr 17, 2018
The Copernican Ruin-aissance
Adam sheds some light on Copernicus; a rogue dwarf revolutionizes what people know about the human body; tulip mania.
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Episode 22
Aired Apr 24, 2018
100 Years Ago Today
Adam digs into the Panama Canal, where Teddy Roosevelt formed a new country to snag free land; one man fights to keep food from killing people; the Spanish Flu kills more Americans than all 20th-century wars combined.
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Episode 23
Aired Nov 27, 2018
Adam Ruins Guns
Adam Conover takes aim at critics on both sides of the gun debate in the United States; he explains why an assault weapons ban would not be effective and demonstrates how the Second Amendment has been twisted to fit the NRA's agenda.
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Episode 24
Aired Dec 4, 2018
Adam Ruins Sleep
Adam provides a rude awakening when it comes to sleep; the mattress industry is a sham; teenagers are desperate for sleep; sleep aids may be unsafe.
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Episode 25
Aired Dec 11, 2018
Adam Ruins Tech
Adam says the tech industry isn't really as helpful as one thinks.
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Episode 26
Aired Dec 18, 2018
Adam Ruins Flying
Adam causes turbulence when he reveals that reward miles drive up costs; he revisits the golden age of air travel to uncover smoky, sexist death traps in the sky; Adam demonstrates how airline mergers cripple small cities.
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