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—Lisa Margonelli, New York Times Book Review
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Famous Six Degrees of Separation Study a Fraud?

The famous Six Degrees of Separation Study was actually based on bogus statistics.

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Doctors took her cells without asking. Those cells never died. They launched a medical revolution and a multimillion-dollar industry. More than twenty years later, her children found out. Their lives would never be the same.

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