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Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores some of these missteps: from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids as a major cause of deat...
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Washington, D.C
National Geographic Society
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- God's own medicine
- The great margarine mistake
- Blood from air
- America's master race
- Turning the mind inside out
- The mosquito liberation front
- Nobel Prize disease
- Learning form the past
- Epilogue.