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Separating fact from disinformation at the intersection of science and society. 🎧 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critically-speaking/id1463016517 🔗 criticallyspeaking.net

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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 11h

Who owns your DNA after you mail it in? Can testing companies sell your genetic information? Keep your sample indefinitely? 🧬 The answers might change your mind about that ancestry test. 🔗 Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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Science Podcast · Updated Weekly · On each episode of Critically Speaking, your host, Dr. Therese Markow, interviews foremost experts in a range of fields. We discuss, in everyday language that we al...

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A Plea From Doctors: Cool It on the Supplements

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Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

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jandee924 🌻🕊️🦋 @jandee924.bsky.social · 16h

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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 16h

Not to their advantage to lose funding. They should let their representatives know!!!

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Obamacare Enrollment by State: Most Enrollees Live in Republican Areas

Millions of Americans depend on Obamacare. Here's where they live.

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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 16h

Gift of a big jet?

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To see if it’s contaminating the water? Far more plentiful and nasty chemicals are in the water. But it can be used to spy on women they suspect of having mifepristone abortions.

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