Aid is a potent drug. It can help or hinder, depending on the circumstances. If you don’t have cancer, for example, a cancer drug will kill you. That’s why the maxim that is meant to guide medicine is to first do no harm. Don’t rush to “help” because your help (being faulty, partial, subjective) could [...]
Enviro Bill McKibben has written a new book which, according to Publishers Weekly “contends that there is no boundary to human ambition or desire or to what our very inventions may make possible.” Bill McKibben is very smart and writes beautifully–and I haven’t read his new book-but I have an opinion anyway. (A bad habit [...]
To think that we could develop a man-made mosquito–our own super-mozzie– more adept than those in the wild, with their great diversity of habits and lifestyles greatly underestimates the wiliness of these dappled flies.
Stalked by pathogens, needed by no creature, these insects have neverthless thrived for over 100 million years, in almost every place where [...]
The news media is in a big kerfuffle over reports of a new geneticallymodified mosquito that is resistant to malaria, and all the strongerthan wild mosquitoes for it. Sounds perfect, right? Stronger bugs thatfight off the parasite would easily eclipse the local weaklings thatfall prey, and soon enough, there’d be no more malaria.
And yet…each malarial [...]
According to the BBC, the Nigerian authorities have now issued warrants for the arrest of several Pfizer staffers! Their case against Pfizer, regarding the botched 1996 Trovan trial on meningitis patients, has been preposterously slow. There are several lawsuits pending and all have been adjourned, postponed, delayed etc etc more than twice. This latest twist [...]
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