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Pew Research Center

A partisan, dependent research institution funded by John Arnold to focus on developing anti-pension research

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Academic Research

Finding 10,000 ways that don’t work

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Human-Monkey Chimeric Embryos

An experimental biology experiment where human stem cells were implanted into primate embryos which then grew for up to 20 days in order to examine human diseases under in vivo conditions. https://www.rt.com/news/521232-first-chimeric-human-monkey-embryos/

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Longevity Study

Women who carry a little extra weight live longer than the men who mention it

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Mouse Utopia Experiment

The research experiment conducted by John Calhoun in the 1960s to create a welfare state for mice which collapsed into extinction despite all the mice’s material needs being satisfied.

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CRISPR

An acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, CRISPR is a genetic engineering technique for editing genomes.

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Gain-Of-Function Research

A medical experiment to engineer pandemic superbugs.

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Broken Windows Theory

A criminology theory that states lawlessness, lack of authority, and anarchy are contagious, which spread faster than an epidemic. According to theory, just as a building with one broken window is vulnerable to additional vandalism, a neighborhood with visible signs […]

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Alfred Kinsey

American pervert who fabricated sex research and legitimized child abuse.

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