Beth Skwarecki
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The World Health Organization Says Aspartame is Fine, Actually
The evidence that it causes cancer is “not convincing.”
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You’re Dense if You Use ChatGPT as a Substitute for Google
It makes things up. Its whole deal is that it makes things up.
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9 Mostly Untrue Myths About Witch Hunts
The medieval phenomena of witch trials and witch hunts loom large in our collective imaginations. A “witch hunt” is a political term for what one perceives as baseless persecution; anti-communist hearings inspired an allegorical play about the Salem witch trials. But how much do you know about actual witch hunts? We’re willing to bet you’ve…
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What Is CRISPR And What Can It Really Do?
A DNA-editing technique called CRISPR keeps popping up in the news, in one medical breakthrough after another. In theory, CRISPR can find any problem area in DNA, snip it out, and replace it with a fresh set of nucleotides. But in real life, that cut-and-paste job isn’t always straightforward.