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From an award-winning Fortune reporter, an explosive narrative investigation of the generic drug boom that reveals the life-threatening dangers posed by globalization—The Jungle for pharmaceuticals The widespread use of generic drugs has been hailed as one of the most important public...

A revolutionary approach to the techniques of working with horses, by a renowned instructor. In Horses Never Lie, renowned horse trainer Mark Rashid challenges the conventional wisdom of "alpha leadership" and teaches the listener to become a "passive leader" - a counterpart to the kind of horse other members of a herd choose to associate with and to follow. Applying Rashid’s principles and techniques helps cultivate horse personalities that are responsive and dependable regardless of the rider.

When molecular biologist Becky McClain raised urgent alarms about biosafety lapses at her biotech lab at Pfizer, she expected concern—not retaliation. Instead, her warnings about dangerous, genetically engineered viruses that were handled without following standard safety protocols were met with hostility, intimidation, and ultimately, devastating illness after a workplace exposure changed her life forever.

Presenting scientific evidence from diverse fields, including anthropology, biology, and psychology, Fuentes devises a myth-busting toolkit to dismantle persistent fallacies about the validity of biological races, the innateness of aggression and violence, and the nature of monogamy, sex, and gender. This revised and expanded edition provides up-to-date references, data, and analyses, and addresses new topics, including the popularity of home DNA testing kits and the lies behind ‘"incel" culture.

Ireland has tended to think of itself as a ‘Goldilocks’ country: not too hot, not too cold, and well positioned to ride out the climate emergency. But this is a fantasy: the effects of climate change in Ireland will be profound, and at the moment we’re not doing nearly enough about it. That’s the bad news. The good news is that Ireland has the wherewithal to dramatically cut its emissions while making itself far more resilient. This book shows how it can be done.

WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2025 A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024 'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY-JANE BEER 'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES ________________________________ The lie of the land: that Britain’s landowners care for the countryside. Our landowning...

On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory. In Truth, Lies, and O-Rings, McDonald, a skilled engineer and executive, relives the tragedy from where he stood at Launch Control Center.

Bright Green Lies exposes the hypocrisy and bankruptcy of leading environmental groups and their most prominent cheerleaders. The best-known environmentalists are not in the business of speaking truth, or even holding up rational solutions to blunt the impending ecocide, but instead indulge in a mendacious and self-serving delusion that provides comfort at the expense of reality. They fail to state the obvious: We cannot continue to wallow in hedonistic consumption and industrial expansion and survive as a species.

More Damned Lies and Statistics encourages all of us to think in a more sophisticated and skeptical manner about how statistics are used to promote causes, create fear, and advance particular points of view. Best identifies different sorts of numbers that shape how we think about public issues: missing numbers are relevant but overlooked; confusing numbers bewilder when they should inform; scary numbers play to our fears about the present and the future.

In Tibet, geologist David R. Montgomery heard a local story about a great flood that bore a striking similarity to Noah’s Flood. Intrigued, Montgomery began investigating theworld’s flood stories and - drawing from historic works by theologians, natural philosophers, and scientists - discovered the counterintuitive role Noah’s Flood played in the development of both geology and creationism.

From the author of the New York Times best-selling Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) comes Red Hot Lies, an exposé of the hypocrisy, deceit, and outright lies of the global warming alarmists and the compliant media that supports them. Did you know that most scientists are global-warming skeptics? Or that environmental alarmists have knowingly promoted false and exaggerated data on global warming?

Nazis lie. A lot. And the things they lie about are often too niche or too technical to find the truth. The Nazi Lies Podcast talks experts in subject areas nazis lie about to find the truth about nazi lies.

Are you confused about who and what to believe when it comes to health? Erica and Fabrice were too. So they set out to understand why it is so hard to get trustworthy answers and to figure out what good health actually looks like. They want to share what they learned with you. Erica is a workplace wellness expert known for her direct and relatable approach to health. Fabrice is a veteran of sifting through contradictory information to come up with a plan of action. In each episode of the Lies We’ve Been Fed, they look at a common “lie” about health and nutrition, layout how it came to be...

Welcome to No More Fitness Lies, the podcast that’s here to save you from fitness BS one myth at a time! Brought to you by Booty Center—the only academy on the planet laser-focused on glutes, science, and evidence-based education—we’re here to set the record straight. Seriously, we’re the real deal. Check us out at www.BootyCenter.comWe dig into all the crazy claims, trends, and straight-up lies floating around the fitness world. Whether it’s influencers with zero credentials or “experts” pushing outdated junk science, we’re here to break it all down. Think of us as your ...

A weekly podcast loosely based on the popular ice breaker game "Two Truths and a Lie". Each episode consists of three parts, two of those telling real life stories and facts, one part being fictional from start to finish. The themes most discussed are psychology and true crime. Beware, this is not an entirely educational podcast. Don't trust everything you hear.

A qualitative inquiry into whatever the fuck it is we’re doing here. Inspired by the connections that I’ve had the pleasure of making during my time on this planet, What Lies Between aims to collaboratively explore the space occupied between our subjective experiences. We are perceptive, meaning-making beings that experience the universe through a paradoxical lens with unique and universally human qualities. Both a source of controversy and wonder, we observe the same phenomena and extract conflicting meaning. Simultaneously, our interpretations often align with others whose backgrounds ...

An easy-to-understand seasonal podcast covering various promising topics in science, medicine, and technology that will have significant impacts in the future. Each episode features key insights and the latest perspectives from prominent subject matter experts. For more info: https://www.spreaker.com/user/abudhi, or follow @ArinBudhiraja on Twitter

A podcast series which examines the interpretative work of compiling statistics, and shares conversations with parents, policy makers and practitioners about the implications of findings.This series is produced by researchers at the Universities of Lancaster and Swansea. The team is called the Family Justice Data Partnership and we are pioneering the use of large scale anonymised data to ask pressing questions about family justice.We are grateful to our funders who are the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory and ADR UK (UKRI and ESRC).All our work benefits from, and would not be possible, ...

Stan Crooke rose from poverty to found a company that pioneered antisense drugs. After decades of struggle and years of public doubt, the company created a treatment that has saved thousands of children from the brutal disease spinal muscular atrophy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Does Bigfoot eat pizza on Sundays? What about those secret underground bunkers only the illuminati have access to? Culter35 (aka Anthony Mennella) here to be your host on the weirdest, wildest, off the wall game show of all time. Culter35 will test his guests by telling them 3 stories. They will be tasked with deciphering the clues, putting on their tin foil hats, and trying to sort reality from fiction. Will they be able to decipher which stories are claimed to be true, and can they figure out which one is a figment of Culter35’s insane imagination? Got your own wild myth, conspiracy theory...