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The Wild World of the Van Gogh Truthers
In 1990, after years of practicing medicine and reviewing Van Gogh’s case history via his hundreds of letters, Arenberg published a paper in JAMA diagnosing Van Gogh as suffering not from epilepsy, as the artist’s physician claimed a century earlier, but from Ménière’s disease, an inner-ear affliction that can cause vertigo, of which Van Gogh complained, and tinnitus, a persistent ringing in the ears. Ménière’s, to Arenberg, could better explain Van Gogh’s decision to slice off his ear. After retiring, in 2017, Arenberg recommitted himself to studying Van Gogh and became convinced that art historians had made an even more alarming mistake: Van Gogh had not committed suicide. He’d been murdered.
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Psychedelic State(s) of America’s Weekly News Roundup
July 10th, 2026
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Contextualizing the two Newly-filed Federal Psychedelics Bills
All the latest details of a major grassroots psychedelic policy reform breakthrough in Massachusetts
Breaking down the numbers: Oregon’s Psilocybin Program’s Impending Armageddon feat. Amy Charlesworth
Understanding Colorado’s Decriminalization Rollback: what’s at stake, who’s to blame, and what activists Are doing about it feat. Jacob Marlega
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