Season 2
(2017)
Cast
Episodes
Adam Ruins Having a Baby 7.0
July 11, 2017
Adam dispels the myth about getting pregnant after 35, delves into breastfeeding vs formula, and explores postpartum de…
Adam Ruins Weight Loss 0.0
July 18, 2017
Host Adam Conover illustrates all the reasons low-fat diets can actually make you fatter, and why counting calories is …
Adam Ruins the Hospital 6.0
July 25, 2017
Adam Conover explains that inflated hospital costs have created a system that's unaffordable and unfair. Plus, the reck…
Adam Ruins Dating 0.0
August 1, 2017
Adam swipes right on knowledge by exposing the flaws in dating sites; the existence of alpha males (and wolves); person…
Adam Ruins Art 6.0
August 8, 2017
Adam poses the question of what makes great art and shows why pieces visible to the masses are revered, regardless of a…
Adam Ruins What We Learned in School 5.0
August 15, 2017
Adam shows that Columbus didn't discover America, King Tut was a dud and the rules of grammar are not as ironclad as pe…
Adam Ruins College 0.0
August 22, 2017
Adam explains why the odds of becoming a dropout billionaire are not in your favor, how manipulated school rankings hav…
Emily Ruins Adam 6.5
August 29, 2017
Emily takes over to “ruin” Adam, pointing out where his facts fall short. She debunks the idea that IQ tests measure in…
Adam Ruins His Vacation 0.0
September 19, 2017
Adam Conover and his girlfriend take a journey across America, where he reveals that Mount Rushmore was built on stolen…
Adam Ruins the Suburbs 6.0
September 26, 2017
Adam explains how the idealized lawn is an unnatural monstrosity, and that the design of the suburbs is slowly killing …
Adam Ruins The Economy 0.0
October 3, 2017
Adam explains why lobbying makes filing your taxes so complicated, and why the economic numbers we focus on don't provi…
Adam Ruins Conspiracy Theories 0.0
October 10, 2017
Adam Conover debunks the fake moon landing theory, discusses the Satanic Panic of the 1980s and reveals how to spot a f…
Adam Ruins Spa Day 0.0
October 17, 2017
Pricey “detoxifying” treatments cleanse you of cash (and may do more harm than good), while MSG's scary reputation is u…
Adam Ruins Halloween 0.0
October 24, 2017
Adam reveals why you have nothing to fear from strangers with candy and how the “panic” over Orson Welles' War of the W…
Adam Ruins Science 7.0
October 31, 2017
Testing mice means wasted resources because what works on them often fails on humans. Scarce funding stops scientists f…
Adam Ruins the Future 6.0
November 7, 2017
Adam explains that unregulated food expiration dates lead to waste and that your 401(k) won't be enough to support your…
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Truth 8.0
March 20, 2018
Adam Conover undermines everything you thought you knew about the American Revolution with startling facts about George…
The First Factsgiving 8.0
March 27, 2018
The Pilgrims didn't break bread with Native Americans, but did dig up their graves! There was no romance between Pocaho…
Mutually Assured Ruination 7.0
April 3, 2018
Adam reveals that the United States kicked off the Cuban Missile Crisis; a lone female politician stands up to Joseph M…
An Ancient History of Violence 6.0
April 10, 2018
Adam shares that it was against the rules for gladiators to kill opponents, and tells the story of a Celtic woman who b…
The Copernican Ruin-aissance 0.0
April 17, 2018
Adam sheds some light on Copernicus, who was actually supported (NOT persecuted) by the Catholic Church. Plus, a rogue …
100 Years Ago Today 6.0
April 24, 2018
Adam digs into the Panama Canal, where Teddy Roosevelt formed a new country to snag free land. Plus, one man fought to …
Adam Ruins Guns 8.5
November 27, 2018
Adam gets a shot at both sides of the gun debate by reviewing the science evidence of the effectiveness of gun regulati…
Adam Ruins Sleep 0.0
December 4, 2018
Adam states that the mattress industry was always a huge scam, that cheap school systems created sleep-deprived teenage…
Adam Ruins Tech 8.0
December 11, 2018
Adam logs in to dulge into monopolistic tech companies by stating how Amazon's monopoly over online shopping harms cons…
Adam Ruins Flying 0.0
December 18, 2018
Adam takes to the skies to elucidate how airline miles and other credit card rewards are huge ripoffs, the extremely se…