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Patients May Die When Doctors Moonlight as Big Pharma’s “Key Opinion Leaders“
(Photo: yanivba) As the crimson sun slipped into the gray Pacific Ocean, a multibillion-dollar drug deal took shape. A group of board-certified doctors greeted each other in …
Pentagon’s New Strategic Guidance: Summary of Content and Implications
In early January the Obama Administration released the Pentagon’s new Guidance, Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense. Designed less to cut U.S. military spending than to …
Our Dangerous Devotion to Eyewitness Testimony
(Photo: Mario De Carli) “We see what we want to see,” my grandmother used to say. This insight visited me recently after I ran across the mall …
Cult of Personality
He is, in the words of Barbara Walters, a “mild-mannered ophthalmologist.” Indeed, the rather squeamish leader-to-be chose eye surgery because it didn’t involve much blood. He speaks fluent English …
How to Create a Depression
Cambridge - European political leaders may be about to agree to a fiscal plan which, if implemented, could push Europe into a major depression. To understand why, it is …
Utah Doctors Join the Occupy Movement
Open pit copper mine run by London-based mining conglomerate Rio Tinto/Kennecott in Bingham Canyon, Utah. It is the world's largest open-pit mine and has created the world's largest …
Americans Are Less Nationalistic Than Flag-Waving Politicians Think
Are American politicians out of sync with the public when it comes to foreign policy? There is considerable reason to believe so. Throughout the scramble for …
Working and Poor in the USA
"Our nation, so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population, should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied …
Occupy Innovation: Neither the Military Nor the Market Does
Actress Anne Hathaway marches with demonstrators on the two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. (Photo: Elana Levin) If the US fought for the post-carbon economy the way …
A Look Behind the US Drop in Undocumented Immigration
A recent New York Times op-ed by Dowell Myers argues that we need to shift from an “immigration policy,” focused on border enforcement, to an “immigrant policy” focused on the integration …