POLICY ARGUMENT

POLICY ARGUMENT

Daniel Engber writes a regular science column for Slate.com and has published articles in Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Salon.com, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. A deliberately quirky writer, he has drawn on his graduate education in neuroscience to argue for distracting free-throw shooters at NBA games, for creating foolproof viral videos, and, in this article, for ending the backlash against obesity.

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Reading the Genre

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