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If you’re anything like me, you have probably given only limited thought to the fluoride in your tap water. You probably have some vague idea that it’s there and that it relates to your dental health. But community water fluoridation is a fairly controversial practice. Some cities (Portland, …
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John F. Kennedy, The Secret Service and Rich, Fascist Texans A handbill circulated on November 21, 1963 In Dallas, Texas, one day before the assassination of John F. Kennedy. On November 21st, 1963, 44 years ago today, the 1,035th day of John F. Kennedy’s tenure as President, he asked the Congress …
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LURID: vivid in shocking detail; sensational, horrible in savagery or violence, or, a guide to the merits of the kind of Bad Books you never want your co-workers to know you’re reading. Sometimes, history is more lurid than fiction. We may never know the full extent of MKULTRA, the CIA-sponsored, …
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Earlier this year, officials in Pinellas County in Florida decided to remove the cavity-fighting chemical from its water supply. Was it a mistake? The government has been drugging us for years. Since the 1940s, municipalities across the United States have been voluntarily adding fluoride to their …
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Who can forget the scene from Kubrick’s classic movie Dr. Strangelove of screws-loose General Jack D. Ripper pontificating to straight-laced British group captain Lionel Mandrake about the dangers of fluoride in water—even as machine-gun fire tears up his office?“Mandrake,” says Ripper, “Have you …
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They walk among us, seemingly little different from you or me. Most of the time, you would never know of their true nature except that occasionally, they feel compelled to speak up. Take an example from Lens, this newspaper’s photography blog. A recent feature, “Dateline: Space,” displayed …
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Free fall: The speed at which the towers came down—they were almost in free fall—suggests controlled demolition rather than catastrophic collapse.Photo: Jim Collins/AP 1. 11/22 and 9/11 They keep telling us 9/11 changed everything. But even in this Photoshopped age of unreliable narrators, much …
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AbstractGiven the profound societal impact of conspiracy theories, probing the psychological factors associated with their spread is paramount. Most research lacks large-scale behavioral outcomes, leaving factors related to actual online support for conspiracy theories uncertain. We bridge this gap …
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A persistent chain e-mail still makes the rounds years after it first appeared, about the origin of canola oil. What it offered was a bit of truth about a product’s family history worked into a screed against the product itself: Before you buy your next bottle of cooking oil . . .I think it’s …
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