Adam Ruins Everything

Adam dispels the myth about getting pregnant after 35, delves into breastfeeding vs formula, and explores postpartum depression for women – and men.

Host Adam Conover illustrates all the reasons low-fat diets can actually make you fatter, and why counting calories is a waste of time.

Adam 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.

Adam swipes right on knowledge by exposing the flaws in dating sites. Plus, alpha males (and wolves) don't exist, and personality tests are a failure.

Adam shows why popular art is revered, regardless of merit. He also exposes the masters as copycats and reveals the art market to be a moneymaking scheme.

In his first animated episode, Adam teaches a crew of kids and their teacher that Christopher Columbus didn’t discover America.

Adam explains why the odds of becoming a dropout billionaire are not in your favor, how manipulated school rankings have little to do with education quality and why the privatization of student loans created a massive debt crisis.

Emily takes over to "ruin" Adam, pointing out where his facts fall short. She debunks the idea that IQ tests measure intelligence and points to information Adam has gotten wrong in the past. Plus, she explains the "backfire effect."

Get ready for some R&R (Ruining and more Ruining!), as Adam Conover and his girlfriend take a journey across America.

Adam explains that your lawn is an unnatural monstrosity, suburban design is killing you, and the racist past of suburbs led to segregation in schools.

Adam explains why doing taxes is unnecessarily complicated, the economic numbers we hear don’t reveal much, and American manufacturing can't return.

Adam Conover debunks the fake moon landing theory, discusses the Satanic Panic of the 1980s and reveals how to spot a false theory.

Pricey detox treatments may do more harm than good, MSG’s scary reputation is undeserved, and the placebo effect is way more powerful than you think!

Strangers with poisoned candy don’t exist, the panic over Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast didn’t happen and mediums are total frauds.

Testing on mice is a waste, and scarce funding stops scientists from seeking cures and proving their findings.

Unregulated food expiration dates lead to massive waste, your 401(k) won't be enough to support your retirement and the future is unpredictable.

Reanimated History: Adam Conover undermines everything you thought you knew about the American Revolution.

Reanimated History: The Pilgrims were grave robbers, and huge cities in the New World existed before its "discovery."

Reanimated History: The Cuban Missile Crisis was started by the US, and a mistake actually brought down the Berlin Wall.

Reanimated History: Gladiators were barred from killing opponents, and the brave "300" Spartans were really 7000.

Reanimated History: Adam sheds some light on Copernicus, a rogue dwarf revolutionized what we know about the human body, and wait until you hear about Tulip Mania!

Reanimated History: Adam digs into the Panama Canal, death by food, and the even deadlier Spanish Flu.

Adam Conover is back to take aim at critics on both sides of the gun debate in America. He explains why an assault weapons ban would not be effective and demonstrates how the Second Amendment has been twisted to fit the NRA's agenda.

Adam Conover has a rude awakening for everything you thought you knew about sleep (or lack of it), from the mattress industry to supposedly lazy teens to sleep aids.

Adam Conover downloads you on how the tech industry isn't really as helpful as you think – or wants you to think.