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Hot Air and Cat Hype

By Pete Shanks on December 7, 2009 in Genetic Crossroads

Allerca Lifestyle Pets, the company which has been claiming for years that it was producing hypoallergenic cats, is getting out of the business. There is, however, more than a little doubt that it was ever really in the business in the first place. Read More

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Pete Shanks

Pete Shanks is the author of Human Genetic Engineering: A Guide for Activists, Skeptics, and the Very Perplexed.

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