Nocebo And America

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Fear And Medical Side Effects

Cremieux Recueil | 17th April 2026

The nocebo effect occurs when negative expectations about a medicine or lifestyle change cause adverse effects even though the intervention itself is inert. This phenomenon is "insidious and pervasive", and has a "shockingly large" impact on public health. Beliefs around seed oils, statins and MSG are high-profile examples. Our ability to lie to ourselves is astonishingly powerful (1,500 words)

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The Peoples Of America

Rudyard William Lynch | Palladium | 16th April 2026

The USA is like China: a continent-sized nation made up of regions with disparate cultures shaped by different political, economic and climate conditions. "Perhaps this is the story of America as a whole, of foreign peoples from different places wrestling, sometimes winning, sometimes losing against the land. However, in the process, they created a land unmistakably and distinctly their own" (7,100 words)

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