Podcast: The MAHA Press Conference
A very important event occurred in Washington, DC on Thursday, February 13. I got invited to it through pure serendipity. It was the press launch of MAHA Alliance, with Senator Ron Johnson, then CEO Del Bigtree.
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Pirsumei Nissa
I lit the candles - the top one, the shamash, and the first one of the eight, symbolizing the miracle of a little bit of oil lasting for eight days - and was about to put it on the windowsill. "No, not there," my grandmother waived me off. "People will see it."
Ask Me Anything: Why I Became a Journalist
I'm doing a series of "Ask me anything" sessions this week with a provocative title, "Why I became a journalist, and why Evidence to the People" - please join! I'll share a story about the three people in the photo - does
The Aluminum Firestorm Starts Tomorrow
How we got to this point, that we never "nailed" this question of aluminum safety, and were "saved" by a Danish epidemiologist who had a last-minute "hunch," is a subject of a future story. But, as a top vaccine expert told me, "one study will not be enough."
The “People Will Have to Die” Fallacy
Brian Lehrer, the host of a daily NPR show bearing his name, broke my heart today. “It could be, sadly, that it’s going to be a lot of death and disease that ends this period,” he said in a panel at the New York Academy of Medicine on the topic of “how media shapes population health outcomes.”