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Today's Children Aren't "the Sickest Generation"

By News Staff in News Articles
August 9, 2019
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Submitted by News Account on Fri, 08/09/2019 - 10:00
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There are claims that the modern world of science and medicine (conventional food, cell phones, vaccines, natural gas, trace chemicals, whatever) is making kids ill but that is just shoddy correlation.

Writing at Science Based Medicine, former Scienceblogs contributor Dr. David Gorski separates fact from myth.

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