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The dangers of magical thinking: an interview with Eric Oliver

Given the overwhelming scientific evidence supporting the safety and efficacy of vaccines, why is there such resistance? The answer lies in the idea of ‘magical thinking’.

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Imagining conspiracies
Imagining conspiracies

Raw milk rally, 2011. Demotix/R. Jeanette Martin. All rights reserved.
Raw milk rally, 2011. Demotix/R. Jeanette Martin. All rights reserved.

Raw milk rally, 2011. Demotix/R. Jeanette Martin. All rights reserved.If you want to buy raw, unpasteurised milk in the US, you may be out of luck. Its sale and distribution is strictly controlled – as it is in the UK – and in some cases illegal. Raw milk contains bacteria that can be harmful to humans, but consumers who believe it is healthier, and that pasteurisation may even destroy some of its nutrients, are clubbing together to share a cow, or even a herd.

It’s a kind of Dallas Buyers Club for milk