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Troy Farah

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  • National Affairs Editor, Salon
California, Phoenix
As seen in: Salon, Apple Podcasts, Elemental, Medium, MSN, MSN Ireland, OneZero, Yahoo Life, The Guardian, Yahoo News, National Geographic and
Covers:  science, chemistry, drugs, health, space, tech, insects, biology, neuroscience, cannabis, psychedelics, opioids, climate change, microbes.
Doesn't Cover: holidays, celebrities, dumb apps, wellness scam products, business, money, capitalism, real estate, glamour, food, dumb movie remakes.
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Independent journalist and documentary field producer from Phoenix, now in Southern California. Writing and criticism has appeared in The Guardian, WIRED, Pacific Standard, Ars Technica, Smithsonian, The Outline, VICE,  Medium, Phoenix New Times and others. I’ve helped produce documentaries for Fusion, Maffick, AJ+, NBC, Golf Digest, and BNN. I often write about drugs, science, insects, and public health. My website is troyfarah.com

Troy Farah’s Journalist Portfolio

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Drugs from Bugs: Bioprospecting Insects to Fight Superbugs

Drugs from Bugs: Bioprospecting Insects to Fight Superbugs

Somewhat like looking down the barrel of a gun, antibiotic resistance is a looming threat to modern medicine.…

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Why Did a Venomous Fish Evolve a Glowing Eye Spike?

Why Did a Venomous Fish Evolve a Glowing Eye Spike?

smithsonian.com In 2003, Leo Smith was dissecting a velvetfish. Smith, an evolutionary biologist at the Unive…

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The Psychedelic Tale of Terence McKenna's Forgotten Music About DMT

The Psychedelic Tale of Terence McKenna's Forgotten Music About DMT

Illustration by Nicole Teitel/Photo by Jon Hanna Terence McKenna, the late ethnobotanist and author, was a tr…

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Should Pregnant Women Have Access to Supervised Injection Sites?

Should Pregnant Women Have Access to Supervised Injection Sites?

W hen Sara learned she was pregnant two years ago, she simply assumed her baby would die. She was a sex worke…

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The latest dangerous drug trend doesn't actually exist

The latest dangerous drug trend doesn't actually exist

Naloxone is a drug that reverses opioid overdoses, bringing a heroin user back from the brink of death. Known…

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The Plan to Test Cities' Sewage for Drugs Is a New Form of Mass Surveillance

The Plan to Test Cities' Sewage for Drugs Is a New Form of Mass Surveillance

Scientists are testing feces and urine in wastewater to find trends in illegal drug use, but their work could…

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Atlas fudged: The war that defined America Original

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A recent thrift store find has enraptured me and given me insight into the history of America, which feels especially poignant and overlooked as we approach the 250th anniversary of this bizarre, wonderful, terrible country. For a quarter, I picked up a copy of “Atlas of American Wars,” printed in the Year of Our Lord 1986, just a few years before I was born — which means its contents are missing a lot of the American misadventures and atrocities that have spanned my lifetime.
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The rising price of Trump’s anti-science agenda Original

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There’s a well-known scene from a 2001 episode of “SpongeBob SquarePants” in which a mob of fish mistakes a feeble old man for a bully and attacks him. The gag happens again, leading a blue fish to famously quip, “How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?” As far as metaphors go, it’s a pretty apt one for how pathogens, parasites and other infectious organisms serve as lessons for President Donald Trump on basic principles of public health.
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AI doomerism is misplaced. Here’s what it will take to pop the bubble Original

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Nostalgia is supposed to take at least a decade or more to kick in, but nowadays people are already pining for just a few years ago, before the president was drenching us in crappy AI memes and reply guys were asking Grok what they should believe. For better or worse — and we all know it’s for worse — artificial intelligence has become a part of everyday life.
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