LONG BEFORE ‘RUST’Alec Baldwin’s Crusade to Take Down a Nobel-Winning LabTwenty-five years before our era of fake news and celebrity pseudoscience, the star actor teamed up with Montel Williams to promote an unfounded conspiracy.The MIT Press Reader
INSURANCE POLICYShould You Really Bank Your Baby’s Cord Blood?A cancer doctor explains the science behind cord blood banking—and why he decided not to store his own kids’ stem cells.The MIT Press Reader
HALLUCINOGENIC HUMANSA Brief Global History of the War on WeedMarijuana has been controversial for almost as long as humans have been farming it.The MIT Press Reader
ALTERNATE HISTORIESMexico’s Little-Known Attempt to Save Freud From the NazisAs the Gestapo targeted Austria’s most famous psychoanalyst, workers’ unions lobbied Mexico’s president to offer Freud and his daughter asylum in Mexico City.The MIT Press Reader
