So the Trump administration has just pulled the US out of the World Health Organization, WHO. WHO is the biggest and most important international health organization. It’s an arm of the United Nations. It’s been around since 1948. Almost every country in the world is a member. Most people have only the vaguest idea of […]
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This was triggered by a post over at our long-term friendly-rival blog, LGM. That post, in turn, was triggered by something stupid that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said recently. What Kennedy said: he thinks his distinctive hoarse, raspy voice is “spasmodic dysphonia”, which he suspects may have been caused by taking flu vaccines for years. […]
In the film Belén, released earlier this year, a woman suffering from incapacitating stomach cramps...
In his latest broadside, amateur poet (and Health and Human Services Secretary) Robert F. Kennedy...
Contrary to the beliefs of some in the anti-vaxx world, infectious diseases spread through bacteria...
I’m in the midst of doing research, teaching, and outreach activities on a set of questions around economic growth and its relationship to what we value. My research team has Tim Jackson visiting tomorrow, who will give a talk on postgrowth economics and also talk a bit about his new book, The Care Economy. The […]
Hello again from our current public health clusterfuck, in which COVID infections continue to rise...
The National Institutes of Health are (still, again) trying to create a registry of autists,...
“They get the one starving kid in Sudan that isn’t going to have a USAID bottle, and they make everything DOGE has done about the starving kid in Sudan.” — a White House official. I’ve been a USAID contractor for most of the last 20 years. Not a federal employee; a contractor. USAID does most […]
If, like me, you follow Ones and Tooze, you will know that Adam recently had heart surgery. It was a big deal. Luckily, America has some of the best surgeons in the world, to whom only a small handful of Americans have access – but Adam Tooze is one of them. In the episode dedicated […]