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Selects: Birthmarks: Probably Not the Mark of the Devil

Explore episode Jun 20, 2026

There's this thing called the doctrine of signs where like, if a food looked like a body part, it was associated with helping to heal that body part. Like beets are good for the blood or something like that. Or avocados are good for the testicles.

Josh Clark

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