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Scientific American

July 1, 2001

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Starbucks in the Forbidden City

Eastern and Western science are put to political uses in both cultures

By Michael Shermer

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Michael Shermer is publisher of Skeptic magazine (www.skeptic.com) and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University. His new book is Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia (Henry Holt, 2018).

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 285 Issue 1This article was originally published with the title “Starbucks in the Forbidden City” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 285 No. 1 ()
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