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Egg-ceptionally Bad

There’s nothing wrong with taking a study at face value. Especially when the study says something like meadowlarks tend to prefer meadows with orchids over meadows with bluegrass (I made this example up). But when you’re a major news outlet and the study is concluding that eggs, a staple food, are nearly as bad for you as cigarettes, I’d like to see you do some reporting.

Science Sushma Pandey's Mother with her photo
17-year-old Indian Girl Dies After Egg Donation

Almost two years after she died, no one involved in the death of 17-year-old Mumbai woman Sushma Pandey is facing charges. She was unmarried, working in a scrap depot, and had donated eggs three times in 18 months at an IVF clinic. Two days after the third donation, she complained of severe abdominal pain.