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"In short, investigating fanaticism is not merely descriptive -- it is developmentally informed prevention that protects public health and strengthens democratic cohesion. When we discuss fanaticism, the facts speak for themselves."

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It’s a little cute, but it’s very descriptive, but it’s also a wonderful place to be.

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It was purely descriptive: a recognition that social and cultural factors shape human behavior.

Previously, researchers could only search for descriptive metadata and then had to download the full datasets to access raw sequences.

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In a bid to purge subjectivity, the definitions were written in a style that was minutely descriptive but might charitably be called ungainly.

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