This weekend I spoke at the Social Justice Summit at California State University at Fullerton. It’s organized annually by an all-volunteer team of students and staff, who spend the better part of the year hatching an all-day series of lectures, workshops, food and fun revolving around a wide range of social justice issues, from anti-war [...]
My story on the problem of pharmaceutical residues in the environment–which has led to the mass poisoning of vultures in South Asia–is now up on Yale e360, and here on this website.
I’ll never look at my medicine cabinet, or drugstore aisles, the same way. I had no idea that so many drugs we take pass [...]
OK, I don’t like Obama’s proposal to open up vast areas of the Atlantic coast, Gulf of Mexico and Alaskan coast for offshore drilling. There isn’t much oil and gas there–not enough to feed our oil-thirst for more than a few years at best–and many of these areas are already completely despoiled and need to be protected, not ravaged once again. Oil and gas companies will certainly be happy to bid on the new blocks, nevertheless.
Check out my new review of Scorcese’s horror flick about a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane, “Shutter Island,” just out in The Lancet.
WHO reports this week that multi-drug resistant tuberculosis has reached unprecedented levels worldwide: one in four in some places! Meanwhile here in the US we’re in a snit over a few modest reforms for health insurers.
I had a lovely conversation with Philip Adams of Australia’s national public radio program this morning, about malaria, the fall of Rome, and the bother of mosquito nets.
For Ms. Magazine. Which makes me, ahem, “Ms. Blogger.”
Ok, I know this video is already appearing everywhere but here it is, again. I’ve always found these quite moving, although I’m not sure if it is the fact of seeing so many peacocks and divas putting aside their egos to be filmed singing side-by-side chorus style or the sentiment that “we are the world.”
I just finished a very pleasant half-hour radio interview with Jeff Farias of Phoenix’s Jeff Farias Show. I was a little nervous, having spent the last 6 months writing non-stop, that I’d be a bit foggy but it appears that I can, in fact, still talk in sentences (sort of). Check it out here. There [...]
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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