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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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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