Ground Truths
Eric Topol, Trisha Pasricha, Sebastian Mallaby, Roxanne Khamsi, Yo-El Ju, Adrian Woolfson, Dr. Jen Gunter, Kevin J. Tracey, MD, Robert Wachter, Jonathan Kipnis, Joanna Stern, Matthew Cobb, Dan BuettnerFacts, data and analytics about biomedical matters
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physician-scientist, author, editor
Roxanne Khamsi is an author and science communicator who has been covering discoveries in genetics and medicine for two decades. Currently, she is a contributing writer for The Atlantic. Her new book is Beyond Inheritance: (Riverhead, 2026).
OB/GYN, author of The Vagina Bible and The Menopause Manifesto (NYT and Canadian bestsellers), appropriately confident, lasso of truth.
President/CEO of Northwell Health's Feinstein Institutes. Pioneer of bioelectronic medicine, vagus nerve research. Author of "The Great Nerve." Discoveries helped get the first FDA-approved vagus nerve implant.
Author, "A Giant Leap," Chair, Dept. of Medicine, UCSF
I'm the founder and chief everything officer at New Things. Subscribe at thenewthings.com. I'm also the author of I AM NOT A ROBOT: MY YEAR USING AI TO DO (ALMOST) EVERYTHING. Buy it here! joannastern.com.
Professor Emeritus (University of Manchester), writes on biology, history of science & French Resistance. Author of a biography of Francis Crick, out in Nov 2025.
Dan Buettner is a National Geographic Explorer, Emmy Award-winning producer, 5 X New York Times bestselling author and Founder of the blue zones.
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