Archive for July, 2011

Is history repeating itself?

Anyone familiar with the history of malaria control will find the below article, from NatureNews, unsettlingly familiar. Western donorsĀ  flood the malarious world with insecticide-treated bednets, and foresee malaria’s impending demise. Experts warn that the mosquitoes will learn to rout the chemical blitz; supporting evidence piles up, and is ignored; the years go by. Then, [...]

Posted in: The Fever
Tags:

The Guardian’s take on our panel at the World Conference of Science Journalists

In the end, I had to Skype in to this year’s World Conference of Science Journalists conference in Doha, Qatar, and deliver my presentation on the issue of drug trials in developing countries via YouTube video. (You can check it out here.) Here’s what the Guardian newspaper had to say about it. “Ethics left behind [...]

Tags: