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Empowered by the State, Condemned by the Crisis: The Purdue Paradox

Empowered by the State, Condemned by the Crisis: The Purdue Paradox

Just as taxpayer-funded research paved the way for the Covid-19 pandemic through gain-of-function experiments in Wuhan, the government’s blind spot—or complicity—in fostering addiction treatment models fueled by profit underscores its failure to protect its citizens.

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Millions of Entries Erased from World’s Largest Obituary Database

Millions of Entries Erased from World’s Largest Obituary Database

Legacy.com is a website where you can search “the world’s largest obituary database,” with nearly 50,000,000 entries accumulated since 1998. Given the claim that Legacy.com offers a “permanent” space for commemoration, the recent discoveries raise some interesting questions.

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