Advice & Dissent

Dec1

It's World AIDS Day; Have We Truly Forgotten the Victims?

World AIDS Day has rolled around again, amid charges by C. Everett Koop that "HIV is no longer on the public's radar screen, and the result is deadly serious." So the 94-year-old former Surgeon General told the 2010 National Summit on HIV Diagnosis, Prevention and Access to Care…Read More
Nov19

In Black and White, Toyota Hysteria Exemplified (Forbes.com)

It's not "live!" It's not even "In color!" And there's no sound. But it's quite stunning. A surveillance video posted by Fox Chicago News Online shows a 2006 Toyota Corolla backing out of a parking space and striking a car. The Corolla then shoots forward and slams into another…Read More
Oct28

The Butcher's Bill for Texting while Driving

In my LA Times piece "Texters, You'd Be Better off Driving Drunk," Oct. 3, I stated "There are no reliable studies regarding deaths associated with driving and texting." Well, there is now. Texting behind the wheel accounted for 16,141 deaths between 2002 and 2007, according to…Read More
Oct27

Supreme Court Case May Wipe Out Vaccine Industry

Back when Congress knew how to pass good legislation, in this case in the mid-1980s, it took most cases involving vaccine liability out of the normal court system and put them in a special vaccine court where science and medicine would rule instead of the whims of scientifically…Read More
Oct20

Of mice and men and Christine O'Donnell

O'DONNELL: Right. O'REILLY: But they're not, at least not that we know of. And now they're in the monkey realm. And I don't understand, if that's the possibility that people might be cured, why the objection. Because I never buy the slippery slope.... O'DONNELL: By their own…Read More
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