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- Temporadas
- 3
- Episódios exibidos
- 64
- Último exibido
- S03E12
- Duração total
- 1d 8h
Linha do tempo quando cada temporada foi ao ar
- Temporada 1 setembro de 2015 – dezembro de 2016 26 episódios
- Temporada 2 julho de 2017 – dezembro de 2018 26 episódios
- Temporada 3 janeiro de 2019 – outubro de 2019 12 episódios
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S02E01 Adam Ruins Having a Baby
11 de julho · 30min procurar chamada
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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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S02E02 Adam Ruins Weight Loss
18 de julho · 30min procurar chamada
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Host Adam Conover illustrates all the reasons low-fat diets can actually make you fatter, and why counting calories is a waste of time.
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S02E03 Adam Ruins the Hospital
25 de julho · 30min procurar chamada
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Adam Conover explains that inflated hospital costs have created a system that's unaffordable and unfair. Plus, the reckless prescription of antibiotics is making them worthless, and you might not need a mammogram.
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S02E04 Adam Ruins Dating
1 de agosto · 30min procurar chamada
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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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S02E05 Adam Ruins Art
8 de agosto · 30min procurar chamada
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Adam poses the question of what makes great art and shows why pieces visible to the masses are revered, regardless of artistic merit. He then exposes the masters as copycats and reveals that today's art market is a moneymaking scheme.
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S02E06 Adam Ruins What We Learned in School
15 de agosto · 30min procurar chamada
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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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S02E07 Adam Ruins College
22 de agosto · 30min procurar chamada
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Adam explains why the odds of becoming a dropout billionaire are not in your favor, how manipulated school rankings have little to do with education quality and why the privatization of student loans created a massive debt crisis.
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S02E08 Emily Ruins Adam
29 de agosto · 30min procurar chamada
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Emily takes over to “ruin” Adam, pointing out where his facts fall short. She debunks the idea that IQ tests measure intelligence and points to information Adam has gotten wrong in the past. Plus, she explains the “backfire effect.”
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S02E09 Adam Ruins His Vacation
19 de setembro · 30min procurar chamada
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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 a whole lot more!
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S02E10 Adam Ruins the Suburbs
26 de setembro · 30min procurar chamada
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Adam explains how the idealized lawn is an unnatural monstrosity, and that the design of the suburbs is slowly killing you. Plus, the racist history of suburban planning led to today's institutionalized segregation in schools.
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S02E11 Adam Ruins The Economy
3 de outubro · 30min procurar chamada
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Adam explains why lobbying makes filing your taxes so complicated, and why the economic numbers we focus on don't provide the whole story. Plus, American manufacturing can't come back because it was a fluke to begin with.
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S02E12 Adam Ruins Conspiracy Theories
10 de outubro · 30min procurar chamada
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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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S02E13 Adam Ruins Spa Day
17 de outubro · 30min procurar chamada
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Pricey “detoxifying” treatments cleanse you of cash (and may do more harm than good), while MSG's scary reputation is undeserved. Plus, the placebo effect is way more powerful than you think!
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S02E14 Adam Ruins Halloween
24 de outubro · 30min procurar chamada
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Adam reveals why you have nothing to fear from strangers with candy and how the “panic” over Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast was the clickbait of the 1930s. And, mediums and séances have a long history - of being fake.
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S02E15 Adam Ruins Science
31 de outubro · 30min procurar chamada
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Testing mice means wasted resources because what works on them often fails on humans. Scarce funding stops scientists from seeking cures, and there's no money in reproducing results, even though it's essential in proving findings.
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S02E16 Adam Ruins the Future
7 de novembro · 30min procurar chamada
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Adam explains that unregulated food expiration dates lead to waste and that your 401(k) won't be enough to support your retirement. Plus, Adam's girlfriend Melinda proves that even with research, the future is unpredictable.
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S02E17 Give Me Liberty or Give Me Truth
20 de março · 30min procurar chamada
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Adam Conover undermines everything you thought you knew about the American Revolution with startling facts about George Washington, Paul Revere's overrated ride, and the tale of a slave who helped America win.
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S02E18 The First Factsgiving
27 de março · 30min procurar chamada
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The Pilgrims didn't break bread with Native Americans, but did dig up their graves! There was no romance between Pocahontas and John Smith, and cities in the New World rivaled London in scale before their “discovery.”
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S02E19 Mutually Assured Ruination
3 de abril · 30min procurar chamada
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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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S02E20 An Ancient History of Violence
10 de abril · 30min procurar chamada
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Adam shares that it was against the rules for gladiators to kill opponents, and tells the story of a Celtic woman who brought the Roman Empire to its knees. Plus, the brave “300” Spartans numbered closer to 7000.
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S02E21 The Copernican Ruin-aissance
17 de abril · 30min procurar chamada
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Adam sheds some light on Copernicus, who was actually supported (NOT persecuted) by the Catholic Church. Plus, a rogue dwarf revolutionized what we know about anatomy, and just wait until you hear about Tulip Mania!
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S02E22 100 Years Ago Today
24 de abril · 30min procurar chamada
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Adam digs into the Panama Canal, where Teddy Roosevelt formed a new country to snag free land. Plus, one man fought to keep food from killing us, while the Spanish Flu killed more Americans than all 20th century wars combined!
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S02E23 Adam Ruins Guns
27 de novembro · 30min procurar chamada
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Adam gets a shot at both sides of the gun debate by reviewing the science evidence of the effectiveness of gun regulation including stating that a ban on assault weapons would be ineffective, showing how the NRA has evolved over the years and influenced how the country interprets the meaning of the Second Amendment, and that both sides of the gun debate ignore how guns and gun regulation affect minorities.
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S02E24 Adam Ruins Sleep
4 de dezembro · 30min procurar chamada
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Adam states that the mattress industry was always a huge scam, that cheap school systems created sleep-deprived teenagers, and how "safe" sleep medications may actually be harmful.
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S02E25 Adam Ruins Tech
11 de dezembro · 30min procurar chamada
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Adam logs in to dulge into monopolistic tech companies by stating how Amazon's monopoly over online shopping harms consumers; how consumers do not fully own their technology devices because of corporate abuse of copyright law; and that tech companies not only routinely evade taxes, but also downright eradicate competition and harm society by abusing their monopoly power.
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S02E26 Adam Ruins Flying
18 de dezembro · 30min procurar chamada
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Adam takes to the skies to elucidate how airline miles and other credit card rewards are huge ripoffs, the extremely sexist "golden age of flying," and how lack of government regulation allowed the skies to be ruled with an iron fist.