Control Freaks

Control Freaks

Control Freaks is an original podcast series by the Consumer Choice Center. Your host, Bill Wirtz, will introduce different impactful personalities to you, that seek to undermine choice and evidence-based policy-making, and replace your choices with theirs. Season One, Enemy of the Truth, will debut July 23, 2025.

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August 13, 2025 56 mins

Finale. We're discussing what we've heard with Yaël Ossowski, Deputy Director at the Consumer Choice Center. Does RFK Jr. believe what he says? What the regulatory and political ramifications of his actions going forward?

Released on August 13, 2025.

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In our third episode, we take on RFK's views on food and agriculture. Are GMOs actually bad for you, and what is the use and chemistry surrounding pesticides?

Act One : A brief history of incredible progress

Act Two : Bust a myth

Act Three : Natural-ness

Our guests in this episode: 

  • Dr. Liza Lockwood, Medical Affairs Lead at the Crop Science division of Bayer
  • Cameron English, Director of Bio-Sciences at the American Counc...
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July 30, 2025 49 mins

In our second episode, we take a closer look at RFK Jr.'s legal career, the money he is making from anti-vaccine lawsuits, and how judges are required to be the guardians of scientific validity in court.

Act One : A changing environment

Act Two : See you in court

Act Three : Send me an invoice

Our guests in this episode: 

  • Barbara Pfeffer Billauer, PhD, Research Professor of Scientific Statecraft at the Institute of World ...
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July 23, 2025 74 mins

This first season of Control Freaks covers Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services under the second Trump administration. We will look at his views, actions, and try to answer the question: what are the consequences of a policy that forgoes the truth?

Episode 1: health policy will fundamentally change under RFK Jr. Are we ready for it?

Act One : Approve it or leave it

Act Two : Shot in the Arm

Act Three : ...

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July 7, 2025 1 min

Episodes start streaming July 23.

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