Joao Aparicio

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You know that feeling when you’ve heard time and time again the same thing, and had to control yourself to not call it bull…? I mean, if everyone agrees on something, if that something has “influencers” swearing by it, and when the poster face for it happens to be a professor of Ophthalmology (?) at Stanford, well, it’s easy to take as real. Is there anything easier to sell than a disease that increased by 50% from 1990 to 2017? (1) Especially one with such a vast list of possible symptoms.