Advice & Dissent

Jan20

Why does everybody think BPA is safe but us?

Regarding the ubiquitous plastic ingredient bisphenol A (BPA), my colleague Angela Logomasini blogged that "The greens are rejoicing today because the Food and Drug Administration has softened its stance on the safety of" the chemical and gave some reasons why it's folly. But…Read More
Jan19

"a stunning public health success"

In response to my Philadelphia Inquirer piece "Swine Flu Epidemic Ends with a Whimper," predictably public health community members have squealed that the only reason the disease proved so mild is because of their own Herculean efforts. I saw the same thing with heterosexual AIDS…Read More
Jan15

"Swine Flu Epidemic ends with a Whimper," my Philly Inquirer piece

Hidden within the latest edition of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's FluView was this sentence: "The proportion of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza was below the epidemic threshold." That's right: The great American swine flu epidemic - which led to…Read More
Jan12

Gag me. Public health establishment takes credit for mildness of swine flu season

Inevitably when pandemic doom fails to pan out, whether it be heterosexual AIDS, SARS, avian flu, or anything else the public health establishment that panicked everyone will claim that the only reason their predictions didn't prevail was fast action on their part. So it was…Read More
Jan8

What Swine Flu ISN'T Doing this week

These things just keep getting briefer and briefer. Infections down, deaths down to only 14, states with widespread activity: just one. Updating you on an earlier blog, the chairman of the influential health committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has…Read More
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