The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a major plastic accumulation zone located between California and Hawaii, is growing at a rate greater than previously believed, according to a new scientific paper published last week.
Read more...Cuba’s entirely state-owned biopharmaceutical industry has been remarkably successful, and can serve as a model for other nations.
Read more...A useful short list on how commercial and competitive pressures have undermined good scientific practice.
Read more...A new book takes issue with the widespread medicalization of depression.
Read more...A deep dive into how an unproven nutrition theory, that saturated fats cause heart disease, became gospel, to the public’s detriment.
Read more...Can a theory of epidemiology put a stake in the heart of neoliberalism — and identity politics?
Read more...Questioning whether enforcement of clinical guidelines and evidence-based medicine produces better patient outcomes.
Read more...On the real and present dangers of rule by algorithm, or as Lambert has called it, “code as law”.
Read more...Have management fads contributed to the fall in productivity growth?
Read more...A sobering compendium of the factors responsible for the rot in the US health care system.
Read more...A large-scale, well designed study on the Mediterranean diet showed unexpectedly that social status matters, big time.
Read more...One of the big benefits claimed for GMOs may be false.
Read more...Shell CEO calls on Trump not to renounce Paris climate accord, but if the US does, other efforts- e.g. Chinese, Indian– will loom larger.
Read more...The shortcomings of economic reasoning are well known, yet mainstream practitioners embrace and defend them.
Read more...A historical discussion of the fondness of economics to envision economies as machines.
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