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The Letter That Poisoned a Cuisine
How a single 1968 note to a medical journal turned a Japanese chemist's discovery into America's favorite scapegoat.
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The Sugar Pill That Keeps Winning
American placebos have grown so potent they are quietly bankrupting drug development.
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The Morning They Sold Us
How a sanitarium doctor, a runaway brother, and a PR mastermind taught a nation when to eat.
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The Radiator in Your Skull
Why two thousand years of medicine got yawning wrong, and what it actually reveals about the brain.
Mind
The Glitch That Isn't
Déjà vu was once dismissed as mysticism. Neuroscience now suggests it's the brain auditing itself.