Spoiling the tomato barrel
One rotten tomato can spoil the whole industry.Posted on July 20, 2008 3:28 PM • 14 Comments •
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The Editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and practitioners. Paul Revere was a member of the first local Board of Health in the United States (Boston, 1799). The Editors sign their posts "Revere" to recognize the public service of a professional forerunner better known for other things.
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Consumers:
"One donut, decaf, no glaze, no powdered sugar"
Filling the hole in the donut -- with caffeinePosted on July 19, 2008 7:50 AM • 13 Comments •
Are there big problems with the very small?
Is nanotechnology hazardous to health and the environment?Posted on May 22, 2008 11:43 AM • 21 Comments •
Raw water cocktail on the rocks (and in the soil)
New paper surveying what's in our sources of drinking water. Do you want to know?Posted on April 30, 2008 7:47 AM • 9 Comments •
Manufacturing chemicals, manufacturing doubt
A new book with sordid details on the manipulation of science and a current example of the same.Posted on April 28, 2008 7:13 AM • 13 Comments •
Disease mongering
Even when concern is appropriate it can be exploited.Posted on April 20, 2008 4:11 PM • 10 Comments •
FDA investigates Kinoki Foot Pads. What took them so long?
Detoxify you brain. Don't watch this infomercial.Posted on April 16, 2008 4:47 PM • 5 Comments •
On not flying
Buckle your seat belt. In your car.Posted on April 9, 2008 4:13 PM • 14 Comments •
Attorney General Mukasey intent on sending his reputation down the toilet
Mukasey rolls over for the Bushies. Again.Posted on April 4, 2008 3:41 PM • 6 Comments •
Prostitution. It's what's for lunch.
Consorting with prostitutes for fun and profit.Posted on March 18, 2008 3:50 PM • 7 Comments •
Bush EPA high jinks again. Sigh.
Where there's smoke there's the Bush administration.Posted on March 1, 2008 7:37 AM • 9 Comments •
Comcast is CrapComtastic
Comcast throttles public hearing bandwidth.
Posted on February 28, 2008 3:54 PM • 6 Comments •
Warning: contains FDA approved drug
Baxter's bad blood thinner.Posted on February 20, 2008 4:13 PM • 13 Comments •
CDC confirms FEMA did a heck of a job
So what else is new?Posted on February 16, 2008 4:30 PM • 25 Comments •
Idle griping about press releases supposed to look like "news"
Inaccurate news about a TB test's accuracy.Posted on February 16, 2008 7:46 AM • 3 Comments •
Want to sit on my lap?
The Hawaii Chair. There's nothing else like it.Posted on February 2, 2008 3:53 PM • 6 Comments •
Selling old meat and stale bread
Sandwich to go.Posted on February 2, 2008 7:55 AM • 12 Comments •
Dangerous losers toy with public safety
Trying to get the Consumer Product Safety Commission to do its job is an up hill battle.Posted on January 11, 2008 4:49 PM • 6 Comments •
Food labels: the font of all knowledge can be pretty small
There's a lot of stuff about tainted food in the news, whether it is toxins in imports or questionable additives in US products (e.g., bisphenol A in hard plastics). This stuff is not on any food label, of course, but...Posted on December 26, 2007 4:14 PM • 9 Comments •
Big Pharma's blind profits compromise
Genentech's grudging arrangement allows elders to get treatment preventing blindness.Posted on December 24, 2007 7:19 AM • 7 Comments •
Buttering up the popcorn market
Buttered popcorn, please. Hold the diacetyl.Posted on December 18, 2007 4:20 PM • 1 Comments •
The Squid gets the last laugh
Anals [sic] of the Law.Posted on December 13, 2007 4:15 PM • 3 Comments •
WHO embargoes health information
Don't tell until I say it's OK.Posted on December 7, 2007 7:44 AM • 9 Comments •
Don't go in! Oh, you live here? Fine.
Do as I say, not as I do.Posted on November 20, 2007 3:51 PM • 9 Comments •
CPSC = Consumer Product Safety Corruption
More Bush administration corruption.Posted on November 3, 2007 7:18 AM • 1 Comments •
My hammer, my love
Hitting the keyboard on the head.Posted on October 19, 2007 4:41 PM • 5 Comments •
The federal government and hot buttered popcorn. Something smells.
The argument about whether bloggers ever do real reporting is not very interesting to us, but suffice it to say there are numerous instances where they do the same thing as journalists, even in the tiny public health blogosphere. A...Posted on September 4, 2007 3:29 PM • 0 Comments •
The shopping experts
They know what we want. Or do they?Posted on September 2, 2007 4:33 PM • 5 Comments •
