Interview: The razor-thin line between contagion and connection w/ Dan Taberski | from TED Health

访谈:感染与联系之间微乎其微的界限 —— 与丹·塔伯斯基 | 来自TED健康

How to Be a Better Human

2025-12-29

30 分钟
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After a mysterious wave of tics and twitches swept through a small-town high school in New York, documentary podcaster Dan Taberski set out to investigate what was really happening. Drawing on extensive research and intimate interviews with the people involved, he explores the roots of mass hysteria — and what it reveals about the line between illness and belonging. What happens when the very thing that makes us sick ... is also what connects us? After the talk, Shoshana interviews Dan on how his research into the mysterious Havana Syndrome leads to his unearthing of a similar mass hysteria in Le Roy, New York. They also discuss how storytelling can reshape discourse surrounding medicine and what happens when the person experiencing an illness feels unheard and unsupported by the very medical professionals supposed to care for them? For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • Hey, everyone, Chris Duffy here.

  • Today, we are sharing an episode of a podcast that we think you are going to love.

  • This has been handpicked by the TED staff, and we think that as a how to be a better human listener,

  • you are going to come away with a fresh idea and a totally new perspective.

  • So enjoy this episode and head to the link in the description afterwards to hear even more.

  • This is TED Health, a podcast from TED, and I'm your host, Dr.

  • Shoshana Ungerleider.

  • I've spent enough time in hospitals to know that not every mystery ends up with a diagnosis,

  • and not every symptom fits neatly into a chart.

  • That's where Dan Tabersky comes in.

  • You might know him as the sharp, funny mind behind some of the most unexpected podcasts out there,

  • like Missing Richard Simmons and Running from Cops.

  • His latest series, Hysterical,

  • dives into one of the most perplexing medical stories in recent history.

  • In 2011, in Leroy, New York,

  • a group of girls began showing concerning symptoms, but no one could figure out why.

  • What starts in a high school becomes a case study in stress, stigma,

  • and the very real ways our bodies respond to the world around us.

  • In his 2025 TED Talk,

  • Dan draws on extensive research and intimate interviews with the people involved to explore the root of mass hysteria.