In this age of seemingly limitless information, many people think they aren't getting the straight story. With the massive corporate control of the agribusiness and pharmaceutical industry, the modern-day science of public health is linked to a profit motive. Is the real data on modern day medical practices telling the full story?Michael Specter is concerned there is a growing sense of mistrust of science and medicine. Specter writes on science, technology and medicine for The New Yorker. He recently has argued with those who believe that vaccines are related to autism and with a growing number of opponents to bio-engineered food. He thinks that skepticism of scientific data is growing to be a literally unhealthy trend.
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