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World Service,10 Oct 2020,9 mins

Why do we find things disgusting?

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There are some things that most of us find disgusting. But is disgust useful? Can our sense of disgust be misused? We ask an academic who describes herself as a ‘disgustologist’. Image: A disgusted expression (Credit: Getty Images)

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