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Themes > snakeoil

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Ammoniaphone

Something in the Air?

I have never been able to help but scoff at the success of bottled water as a concept.
29 May 2016
Photograph of 19thc nerve tonics

This is Your Brain on Speed

The Australian television series, The Weekly, recently ran an exposé on the putative benefits of the profusion of whey protein powders currently being marketed as bodybuilding aids.
24 Mar 2016

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