For more than three decades, Jay Hooper, a virologist at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in ...

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Faye Flam is a science journalist and podcaster who has written for Science, Sky & Telescope, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Times, Psychology Today, Bloomberg Opinion and The Free Press.

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The president had vowed to “save vaping” on the campaign trail in 2024, but the decision is already drawing fire from ...