In return, Mao sent food to Russia. In an eerie echo of Stalin’s decision in the 1930s to export grain to the West to buy industrial plant, thereby contributing to the terrible Russian famines, Mao’s food-for-industry deal triggered famine
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“In fact, the effect of the expensive placebo was not significantly different from that of levodopa, the most effective medication for Parkinson’s disease. Levodopa acts by raising levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine in the brain.”
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