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Worth Reading: Backup Bees, Radium Girls, and Regulatory Capture

By lborkowski on March 29, 2011.

A few of the recent pieces I've liked:

T. Christian Miller of ProPublica and Daniel Zwerdling of NPR: Aftershock: The Blast That Shook Psycho Platoon

Susan Milius in Science News: Backup Bees

Deborah Blum at Speakeasy Science: The Radium Girls (Part II, Part III)

Frank N. Von Hippel on the New York Times Opinion Page: It Could Happen Here ("Nuclear power is a textbook example of the problem of 'regulatory capture' -- in which an industry gains control of an agency meant to regulate it.")

Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News: Demand Grows for Palliative Care

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