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Double Dip: Doctors Paid To Advise, Promote Drug Companies That Fund Their Research
Research has been seen as less objectionable than other forms of interactions with drug companies, but 10 percent of researchers have multiple ties among the nine companies analyzed. That …
New York’s Teen Pregnancy Campaign Quietly Gets Made Over, Still Misses the Mark
When the Bloomberg administration unveiled its teen pregnancy prevention campaign last March, it was met with immediate backlash. Critics called for officials to cancel the campaign and issue a …
Honduras: Who Should Really Be On Trial For the Rio Blanco Dam?
An indigenous activist in Honduras is attacked for campaigning against the Agua Zarca Hydroelectric Dam.
Selective Prosecution Claims in John Doe Filings Fall Flat
Wisconsin Club for Growth's allegations that prosecutors in a finance probe have engaged in politically-motivated “selective prosecution” don't stand up to even limited scrutiny.
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How “Extreme Levels” of Monsanto’s Herbicide Roundup in Food Became the Industry Norm
Food and feed quality are crucial to human and animal health. Surprisingly, almost no data exist in the scientific literature on herbicide residues in GMO plants, even after nearly …
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The Legacy That We Are Leaving: The Extinction of Species
There have been five great extinctions of species on Earth, all of them due to natural causes. In a gripping book, Elizabeth Kolbert explores the ongoing sixth extinction of …
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Twelve Simple Propositions: Climate Change and the Asia Pivot
A meaningful “Asia Pivot” would meaningfully address the greatest security threat to that region and the whole planet: climate change.
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Paul Krugman | Anger, Not Envy, Is Raising Americans’ Ire
To the extent that people have negative feelings about the 1%, the emotion involved isn't envy - it's anger, which isn't at all the same thing.
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The Joy and Resolve of a Movement Built on Creative Resistance
Art has added vitality and energy to advocacy; and it reaches people at deeper emotional levels and in their hearts conveying what cannot be said with mere facts.
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Hope Dies Last
Last week Guy McPherson had some terrifying things to say about the future of the planet on Thom Hartmann's radio program. He said we are experiencing such a rapidly …