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In 1747, a British doctor named James Lind conducted an experiment where he gave one group of sailors citrus slices and the others vinegar or seawater or cider. The results couldn’t have been clearer. The crewmen who ate fruit improved so quickly that they were able to help care for the others as they languished. Lind published his findings, but died before anyone got around to implementing them nearly 50 years later.
Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong - The Huffington Post
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Unter anderem wird die Biologin Ulrike Kämmerer aufgeführt, die etwa die Virus-Nachweisbarkeit durch PCR-Tests bezweifelt hatte.
Familiengericht in Weimar Untersagt Schulen Maskenpflicht
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Conservatives framed supporters of affirmative action as “hard-core racists of reverse discrimination” against white people, as Yale Law professor Robert Bork claimed in 1978.65 Such arguments echoed the Supreme Court ruling in 1883 that found the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional, gutting the anti-racist protections of the Reconstruction amendments on the grounds that Black Americans should not be treated as “the special favorite.”
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