How tobacco companies used stress research to trick people into thinking cigarettes were healthy

While reading this morning's issue of The Browser, I learned about this fascinating NPR article from 2014 about the surprising origins of our modern concept of stress. I have always accepted stress as an undisputed scientific fact, but according to the article, the foundational research on stress was funded and shaped by the tobacco industry. — Read the rest

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