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How to love the moon mission without guilt

Whenever someone likes to claim that the moon landing was faked — a fairly tedious conversation, even as conspiracy theories go — my general response is to ask, “OK, which one?” Most people seem to forget that there were six…
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RFK Jr.’s medical racism is to be expected

Since his confirmation as Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been a magnet for controversies, ranging from his shakeup of vaccine schedules and recommendations to his assertion that Americans “shouldn’t be taking medical advice from me.”…
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The rising toll of Florida’s abortion ban

Nearly two years ago, Florida’s six-week abortion ban went into effect, forcing most people to travel out of state if they need an abortion. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, which overturned the constitutional right to an…
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Lower drug prices won’t fix cancer care

After former President Jimmy Carter used the cancer drug Keytruda — which ultimately helped him become the first U.S. president to live to 100 — cancer patients across the United States had one request for their doctors: “I want what…
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