Can We All Please Just Stop Shaking Hands?
Scientists explain why everyone should nix handshakes to avoid disease
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7 min readMar 4, 2020
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David Whitworth is not a fan of handshakes. The biologist at Aberystwyth University in Wales thinks humans should move away from the formality altogether. “I avoid shaking hands…
