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The Spectres That Haunt Africa: Strange Ailment in Kenya Sets Social Media Alight

In response to recent (often ominous) reports from western Kenya regarding a bizarre condition that swept through a Christian all-girls high school, medical sociologist and journalist Robert E. Bartholomew reminds us that these types of outbreaks should be seen for what they are: collective manifestations of distress.

Pandemic Pandering: A Special Report on Special Pleading

Pandemic Pandering: A Special Report on Special Pleading, a Carbon Comic by Kyle Sanders, appeared in Skeptic magazine 20.1 (2015).

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