The United States has, for 70 years, been fighting a continuous aerial war against the New World screwworm, a parasite that eats animals alive: cow, pig, deer, dog, even human.…
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We hate to break it to you, but your split ends didn’t just appear overnight. They’re the result of a series of seemingly harmless habits that, when repeated daily, quietly…
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has had a long love affair with junk science, and as secretary of Health and Human Services, he has embraced it once more, most brazenly to…
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Photographs by Evan Jenkins This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. A Wednesday morning in May is a strange time…
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Long before he joined the FDA to run the center that regulates vaccines, Vinay Prasad argued against COVID shots for kids. Among his many criticisms of the United States’ approach…
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The lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origins comes in many forms. Here is Donald Trump’s: A scientist in Wuhan walked outside to have lunch, maybe with a girlfriend or something. “That’s…
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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. It took just a few hours for devotees of the “Make America healthy…
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Hair, like fashion, shifts with the seasons. And just as you wouldn’t wear a silk slip dress in a downpour or a shearling coat to the beach, your hair—and your…
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine activism is not what you’d call subtle. For decades, he has questioned the safety and effectiveness of various childhood vaccines, insisting that some of them…
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Photographs by Sarah Blesener The Toyota pickup hit the tree that May morning with enough explosive force to leave a gash that is still visible on its trunk 39 years…