When you drink from a BPA-free water bottle, is it still safe from “leeching” plastics? On The Gist, Mike asks Maria Konnikova of the New Yorker to examine the research into BPA plastics for a game we call “Is That Bulls—t?” For the Spiel, the oh so costly elections in Canada. 

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