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How the Tobacco Industry Shaped the Science of Stress

Posted on July 16, 2014 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

The modern idea of stress began on a rooftop in Canada, with a handful of rats freezing in the winter wind. This was 1936 and by that point the owner of the rats, an endocrinologist named Hans Selye, had become expert at making rats suffer for science.… What was interesting to Selye was that no […]

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David Dobbs writes features and essays for The New York Times, National Geographic, Aeon, NewYorker.com, Slate, and other publications. He is currently writing a book, working title The Orchid and the Dandelion (Crown, ETA 2015) about the genetic and cultural roots of temperament. More on Dobbs here. He's also at Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Facebook.

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