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6 Oct, 5 tweets, 3 min read
"Mother Nature has been synthesizing weird and wonderful medicinal chemicals for over three billion years, many of which chemists could not predict or devise in their wildest dreams. 

They should go to the Amazon," writes @DocMarkPlotkin. nyti.ms/3d3mVpj
"Today the Amazon's magnificent forests are being destroyed and its Indigenous cultures disrupted and extinguished ever more rapidly." nyti.ms/3d3mVpj
"Our ignorance about Amazonian flora and fauna remains staggering." nyti.ms/3d3mVpj
The Amazon region is so vast and impenetrable that much within it remains undiscovered. nyti.ms/3d3mVpj
The world’s medicine cabinet is on fire, and we don’t even know what’s inside it yet.

Read more from @DocMarkPlotkin. nyti.ms/3d3mVpj

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