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Tunbridge Wells strikes back
Jan 15th 2004
From The Economist print edition
Disgust, as many suspected, is a disease-avoidance mechanism…the emotion of disgust evolved to protect people from disease…In all seven pairs, the disease-salient pictures were more disgusting than their counterparts. For things like the apparent depiction of bodily fluids, or of a face that had been “enhanced” [...]

“The United States wants the world to start buying its beef again, barely a few weeks after the discovery of its first case of mad-cow disease.
‘Our goal is to see trade resume as quickly as possible,’ Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said earlier this week.”
US says its beef is safe but no country is biting – [...]