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Adam Ruins Everything : Season 2
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Air date: 23 Aug '16 - 16 episodesIconoclastic Adam Conover from CollegeHumor turns life as we know it on its ear by showing us how unnecessary, and sometimes horrible, things we think we know to be real and true really are.
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List of Episodes (16)
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Adam Ruins Everything (2015)
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1. Adam Ruins Having a Baby
11 Jul '17Adam 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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Adam Ruins Everything (2015)
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2. Adam Ruins Weight Loss
18 Jul '17Host 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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3. Adam Ruins the Hospital
25 Jul '17Adam 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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4. Adam Ruins Dating
01 Aug '17Adam swipes right on knowledge by exposing the flaws in dating sites; the existence of alpha males (and wolves); personality tests.
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5. Adam Ruins Art
08 Aug '17Adam 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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6. Adam Ruins What We Learned in School
15 Aug '17Adam 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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Adam Ruins Everything (2015)
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7. Adam Ruins College
22 Aug '17Adam 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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Adam Ruins Everything (2015)
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8. Emily Ruins Adam
29 Aug '17Emily debunks IQ tests and points out information Adam has gotten wrong in the past; an explanation of the "backfire effect."
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9. Adam Ruins His Vacation
19 Sep '17Adam 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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10. Adam Ruins the Suburbs
26 Sep '17Adam 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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11. Adam Ruins The Economy
03 Oct '17Adam 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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12. Adam Ruins Conspiracy Theories
10 Oct '17Adam 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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13. Adam Ruins Spa Day
17 Oct '17Pricey "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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14. Adam Ruins Halloween
24 Oct '17Adam 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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Adam Ruins Everything (2015)
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15. Adam Ruins Science
31 Oct '17Adam shares the truth behind testing mice, scarce funding and reproducing results.
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16. Adam Ruins the Future
07 Nov '17Adam 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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