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One Damn Thing After Another: When the Cure Was the Poison
Cole pulls the thread on medicine's reversals — fen-phen, Vioxx, hormone therapy, the low-fat craze, trans fats, the opioid push, diet sweeteners, and the 1946 cigarette ads that started it all. The pattern is certainty, mass uptake, harm in the data, reversal. With the new weight-loss drugs in the headlines, the question is whether we'll remember what the old ones taught us. AI Generated
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