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Really sad to say goodbye to @mosaicscience from @wellcometrust. In 2016 they gave me free reign to write/report this astonishing, forgotten story about some of the weirdest, darkest, most controversial experiments in US history mosaicscience.com/story/gay-cure…
(Please do read it - I promise you it is jaw-dropping. One of my few regrets about moving into think-tankery is that I never got to expand/revisit the story.)
But it wasn't just my piece. If you've read an informative, provocative, fascinating science long read over the last five years, the chances are pretty high it was distributed by @mosaicscience under Creative Commons.
Thanks so much to @GilesHNewton, @christinagiles, @markgfh and all the @wellcometrust team for their amazing efforts. It's one hell of an archive.
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