Just Killing Time

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🧬 Who was Henrietta Lacks? In 1951, a 31-year-old Black mother of five went to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for cervical cancer treatment. While she was under anesthesia, a surgeon took two small tissue samples that no one had asked her about. One of them grew in a lab when no human cells ev…

Before there was Tuskegee's whistleblower, there was Guatemala — and almost nobody knew about it for 60 years. 🩺 Between 1946 and 1948, the U.S. Public Health Service — under Dr. John C. Cutler — deliberately infected more than 1,300 Guatemalan prisoners, sex workers, soldiers, psychiatric pat…

🩸 They called it "bad blood." It was syphilis — and the U.S. government let it run untreated in 600 Black men for 40 years, on purpose. Episode 37 of Just Killing Time takes you inside the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the U.S. Public Health Service's 1932–1972 experiment in Macon County,…

🪱 "The Germ of Laziness" — the hidden history of hookworm, the Rockefeller cover-up, and the disease America pretended it cured. For three centuries, poor Southerners were dismissed as lazy, backward, and shiftless. The truth was a parasite: Necator americanus, the hookworm, quietly infec…

🩺⚖️ "Contain and eliminate" — two words buried in a federal court record that expose one of the most stunning hidden-history stories in American medicine. In this deep-dive episode of Just Killing Time, Elizabeth Stanton uncovers the true, documented story of the American Medical Associat…

🩺 How did a man who never went to medical school end up deciding the fate of American medicine? Welcome to "Bulletin Number Four" — the true story of the 1910 Flexner Report, the Rockefeller and Carnegie money behind it, and the century of plant medicine it quietly erased. Abraham Flexner…

🩸 She went in for what she thought was an appendix surgery. She was 19. Kansas sterilized her — and 2,850+ other people — without full consent, under a law that stayed on the books for 52 years. In this episode of Just Killing Time, Elizabeth Stanton uncovers the true, documented history of Kansas&…

🪣 The first serial killer to hunt his victims on the internet sealed 8 women in barrels — and used forged emails to keep them "alive" for years. In June 2026, Kansas decided if he lives or dies. This is the John Edward Robinson "Slavemaster" story. 💀 John Edward Robinson Sr. was…

This episode is dedicated to my best friend who I call sister, Dena Tackett. We have driven up and down I-35 for each other for decades. Right now, while this episode is live, a decision is sitting on Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt's desk that could put a mass murderer back on the street. In Au…