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Opinion: How Wellness Became Toxic

If social media has amplified the “clean” beauty movement, it has also exposed it to poisonous misinformation, writes Lindsay Dahl.
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Misinformation has had a corrosive effect not only on public health but also environmental science, argues Lindsay Dahl. (Shutterstock)
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  • Lindsay Dahl

Late one night in the middle of the pandemic, my phone lit up and I felt a pit in my stomach. I should have been sleeping — I was newly postpartum and sleep was in short supply. But the social media culture wars were becoming as toxic as the harmful chemicals I’d spent my career trying to eradicate. An influx of notifications could only mean one thing: a viral post about toxic chemicals in products and their potential health effects.

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