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The work of Michael Skinner and his colleagues provides a good example of this: they found that injecting pregnant rats with a chemical that suppresses androgens (male sex hormones) causes their descendants to have diseases that are inherited for several generations.

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Because smiling is evolutionarily contagious, and it suppresses the control we usually have on our facial muscles.

It is a drug for people, but the reason is it suppresses the immune system.

So in 1980, some researchers did a study on a drug called lorcainide, and this was an anti-arrhythmic drug, a drug that suppresses abnormal heart rhythms, and the idea was, after people have had a heart attack, they're quite likely to have abnormal heart rhythms, so if we give them a drug that suppresses abnormal heart rhythms, this will increase the chances of them surviving.

But the most important reason is that a system of mass surveillance suppresses our own freedom in all sorts of ways.

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