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Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry

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Is There a Declining of Research Productivity?

There have been people speculating recently that environmental contaminants are leading to a host of health bad outcomes, especially obesity. How plausible do you think this is why? You're dealing with problems that are on the very limits of our ability to measure them. And people who make very strong claims based on effects without a mechanism just doesn't seem like a good all that's promising to me.

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