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Noshole | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I actually watched a documentary about that. Basically they were all weirded out until the science was explained and many participants were compensated. Most people said no at first to the study
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atyh | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The irony of top medical researchers from the West, having to go meet with remote tribal elders to beg for bits of their tribe’s poop, to help us get healthy again, contains a disturbing level of crude poetic justice