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The Science You Should Have Heard of This Week: Let’s Talk About Asparagine

In an apparent attempt to taint the remaining vegetables that haven’t been Daily Mail-ized, some of the popular media has turned against asparagus over the last few days. It turns out, asparagus gives you breast cancer! For once, some of the media also started fighting back, in an attempt to explain why the winter vegetable is not, in fact, a danger to anyone’s health. As a scientist and a student of science communication in the mass media, I believe there is much to be learnt from the recent kerfuffle.
It all started when a group of scientists from Cold Spring Harbor

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