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There are also some scattered minihistories of female desire among Taoists and among the Zunis of New Mexico, which are provocative (a 19 th -century Zuni ceremony celebrating the superiority of the vulva required men to don huge wooden penises) but feel as if they were cribbed in a 45-minute visit to the library.
As Frum rightly points out, the 1970s was the decade when the provocative ideas and styles of the 1960s spread from elite enclaves like Cambridge, Mass.
We were unable to examine the effects of other provocative exposures previously proposed by others, including exposures to light at night [ 35 ] and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons [ 36 ] . The observed early socioeconomic differences combined with a lack of differences in age at menarche or early body size also suggest that attention might be turned to patterns of early infection (or lack of infection) and immune response [ 37 ] .
In this provocative and often brilliant book, Amar shows us what his Truth School would look like.
There are two main reasons why certain trials are not published: one is that the pharmaceutical industry has a long history of suppressing data that are commercially unfavorable and the second is that medical journals and the popular media favor publication of positive over negative trials (after all, negative trials do not make for a provocative newspaper headline).