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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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Environment:

Does BPA interfere with breast cancer treatment?

Common contaminant and chemotherapy resistance

Molecular history of the HIV whirlwind

The pre-history of the AIDS pandemic.

Adjustable rate mortgages and West Nile Virus infection

How a mortgage crisis caused infection.

Oil on troubled waters

Coastal drilling. What could happen?

Twenty-second anniversary of an environmental catastrophe

Death by CO2. Quickly.

Cheney's energy industry mole to fashion climate change policy?

Trashing the place.

Bush games, Bush Rules

Bushies. An invasive species.

Primer on greenhouse gases, III.

The payoff. What makes a greenhouse gas a greenhouse gas.

Primer on greenhouse gases, II.

How electromagnetic radiation interacts with matter.

Primer on greenhouse gases, I.

Basics of electromagnetic radiation and greenhouse gases.

The main point of "Why the Right Wing attacks science"

It's not what, but who.

Why the Right Wing attacks science

How and and what for.

Shutting down the information spigot at EPA

Opening the back door of an essential chemical hazards database to industry manipulation.

Are there big problems with the very small?

Is nanotechnology hazardous to health and the environment?

California bound (and tied)

The Bush administration and its poodles.

The Clinton pander machine

The Clinton gas tax holiday pander.

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?

EPA gets the doubt of the benefits

Risk benefit trade-offs without consistently evaluating benefit.

Better than roadkill

More meat in a vat musings.

Tangled web, tangled bank and mercury poisoning

Mercury crawls out of the river into birds.

It's in the air

The composition of the air we breathe. Not completely straightforward.

Giving away water in a drought

Florida to Nestle: have a drink. On us.

How deep the ocean? How high the sky?

Most of the surface of the earth is covered with water. Some of it is pretty deep (at least by human standards). Above us is the atmosphere. It goes up. Way, way up. So if we were to make a...

The CDC Great Lakes report fiasco

What a tangled web we weave . . .

Bush EPA high jinks again. Sigh.

Where there's smoke there's the Bush administration.

Life's a (contaminated) beach

Getting your shit together at the seaside.

The logging industry and the kindness of strangers

Another Bush giveaway to his friends. Will anything be left in a year?

Wingspread statement on the Precautionary Priniciple: tenth anniversary

Commemorating an historic event in the American environmental movement.

EPA takes the Fifth

Being an EPA Executive has its Privileges.

Miniature GC-MS: just one problem . . .

High tech sensors aren't as great as they appear to be in practice.

What causes traffic jams

One person's driving can do it. Who is this guy?

Toxic releases. Shhhh.

Double the toxics, double the fun.

More drugs down the drain

Sewage full of drugs. Really full of drugs.

Small concerns about nanotechnology

But big problems?

Energy's pot and kettle

Clean energy spending. Guess who leads?

Particulate air pollution is local

They're not choking us. We're choking ourselves.

Blog Action Day: chickenshit on the half-shell in Maryland

Poultry farms running amok. Straight into the Bay.

Tamiflu in the sewer, drug resistance and the main question

Resistance of the bird flu virus to Tamiflu is probably bad. Probably.

The best of the worst is still horrible [correction appended]

The best of the ten most poisoned places. Be grateful and be warned.

Smoking ban in UK: same story in five newspapers with different headlines

Rashomon plus one.

Edwards's cancer policy: a disappointment

Not a public health approach.

The Terminator terminates environmental regulations

Schwarzenegger really is a Republican. In case you were wondering.

Saving an endangered species (Republicans?)

Interior Department official resigns. So what else is new?

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