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Dartmouth Professor Concerned About Fake-News Russia-Trump Stories on Internet

Matthew McDonald

The Dartmouth College professor said a lot of attention is being paid to conservative conspiracy theories, but not enough to unlikely tales spread by liberals about President Donald Trump's alleged dealings with Russia.

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1980 Letter from B.U. Graduate Student Doctor May Have Inadvertently Fueled Opioid Epidemic

Matthew McDonald

The one-paragraph letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine was widely interpreted by doctors as showing that opioids posed almost no risk of addiction — although it contained little proof and that's not exactly what it said, anyway.

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