How More And More GMO Crops Are Reaching Your Plate

Written by Sayer Ji

Picture a family eating dinner in the American Midwest. The kids are having corn chips and juice. Dad’s eating a pork chop. Mom reaches for the salsa — corn-based, like nearly everything on the table. It’s an ordinary evening in the most ordinary country in the world

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How Being Poisoned Can Be Mistaken for Being Infected By ‘Germs’ and ‘Viruses’

Written by Sayer Ji

The Story at a Glance: The claim in one breath. Modern medicine explains illness with two stories — genes and germs. A third, the exposome (the lifetime load of chemicals a body absorbs, including the ones we’re prescribed and injected), is real, large, and badly undercounted. While it may not itself replace germ theory, it at least deserves to sit alongside it.

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Society’s war on grief

Written by Robert D. Stolorow

The DSM5, the most recent version of psychiatry’s diagnostic bible, makes it possible to classify grieving that endures beyond a rather brief span of time as a mental illness.

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DNA Testing: a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Written by Jonathan Engler

Conventional medical wisdom (and as I was taught at medical school 40 years ago) holds that medicine is a science, and since science involves measurements, the more we measure, the better we are able to diagnose, track and treat health and illness.

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