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Does Anyone Know What ‘Wellness’ Means Anymore?
The well-being business is booming, sometimes at the expense of actual health.
Then there are the more hard-line (and health hazardous) variations involving everything from (basically) bleach drinking to parasite cleanses to “wellness farms” designed to wean you off antidepressants. In his first few months leading US Health and Human Services, anti-vax poster boy Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired every member of the CDC’s advisory committee on immunization practices, replacing them with a mixed bag of credible experts and “vaccine skeptics”; laid off thousands of civil servants and cut billions in research funding to colleges and public health departments; and used his White House perch to take shots of raw milk on camera. As you’ll read in this issue, robust, invigorating, truly innovative research is still uncovering new tools and therapies, and solving once intractable medical mysteries, in the US and around the world.
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