Recently some health advice was given out most appropriately in the Baseball section of the NYT because coincidentally that is the first place I look for any expert help on how to improve the state of my health. Joe Garagiola (they probably just forgot to mention his medical degree or equivalent background in some related […]
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At the risk of running multiple threads but with the potential of gaining new participants I am starting another post to buttress the good entries already in place. Here’s one from me: In a rare public appearance today, the typically reclusive NYT health writer and journalism professor Roni Rabin came forward to answer questions regarding […]
Many hold the New York Times up as a worthy model for good news reporting and whether this is true I am not sure but what I do know is that when it comes to tobacco and health, this paper has an anti-tobacco stance that no concerns for health can possibly dislodge. Today, and ironically […]
I see that Chris Snowdon has a great post on the absurdity and a bit of history on the third hand smoke meme that refuses to die. It seems that while good ideas are often unnoticed or ignored that the really bad ones, and this one is bad in so many ways, tend to get […]
In the Business section in the NYT this weekend, Duff Wilson and Julie Creswell put together a more balanced article than ever would have been accepted in the same paper’s Health section. (You might recall that this was perhaps the most prominent newspaper uncritically repeating the most inane tobacco nonsense of the last year if […]
From the New York Times (The Needle Nexus)…. Moscow’s drug policy could be called harm augmentation: discourage drug use by making it as dangerous as possible. Arseniy and David, for example, can’t direct addicts to methadone clinics, since methadone — the global gold standard rehabilitation method — is illegal in Russia Kind of sounds like […]
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