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The Allure of the “Natural” (with Alan Levinovitz)

Free Thoughts

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The Plainest Ingredient, Forever and Ever

Every single vanilla orchid has been artificially isseminated by hand in order to get you your vanilla bean. Traditions are a product of human intervention and also, youdo'twato confuse tradition with better, safer, holy it's not. I think that kind of bias towards the natural can really get in the way of clear thinking about what is effective or ineffective at achieving the goals that we want to achieve.

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