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In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.
Michael Pollan
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Michael Pollan
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 6
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