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Martha Rosenberg is an award-winning investigative public health reporter who covers the food, drug and gun industries. Her first book, Born With A Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp The Public Health, is distributed by Random House. Rosenberg has appeared on CSPAN and NPR and lectured at medical schools and at the Mid-Manhattan Public Library.
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Monday, February 8, 2021Humor: There is Only One Unlimited Resource--Shame! While a lot of personal shame centers around age, income and weight, especially when they're going in the wrong direction, there are other rich sources of shame in life:
Wednesday, February 3, 2021Trump Was On Controversial Baldness Drug In 2018, President Trump's doctor disclosed that the president takes finasteride, a drug marketed as Propecia to treat male pattern baldness. While it is tempting to make jokes about Trump's hair and even the sexual side effects that accompany the drug, it also has many disturbing adverse effects probably no men should risk for a hair drug.
Sunday, January 31, 2021New Year's Resolutions for Drug Makers Covid vaccines have given drug makers a temporary halo. Yet their sleazy business plans cry out for these New Year's resolutions
Monday, January 25, 2021Humor: New Year's Resolutions for American Men We will stop telling a woman she looks beautiful by candlelight or in total darkness and realize this is actually an insult.
Wednesday, January 20, 2021Cartoon: Does a Tweet in the Forest With Nobody to Hear It Make a Sound? Trump loses voice as Big Tech, the fourth branch of government, weighs in
Saturday, January 16, 2021White Supremacy? It Goes To The Very Top Of The NRA This week, many are cheering the news that the NRA is now as financially bankrupt as it is morally. Last year, New York Attorney General Letitia James sued four current or former NRA executives for "illegal financial conduct," leading to the gun group's recent declaration of bankruptcy.
Wednesday, January 6, 2021Before Congratulating Pharma, Look at Its Recent Track Record While the wolrd appreciates expedited Covid vaccines, other medicines that drug makers have expedited and aggressively marketed have harmed the public. Worse, the fallout has barely been covered in the year of the pandemic.
Tuesday, December 29, 2020Diet Drug Pulled From Market Because of Cancer Fears Today, the average American man weighs almost198 pounds up from 166 pounds in the 1960s and the average American woman weighs 170 pounds up from 140 pounds in the 1960s. (The trend brings to mind an old New Yorker-style cartoon in which a doctor tells a fat patient "according to this chart you should be eight feet and two inches tall.")
Wednesday, December 2, 2020Masklessness kills--Cartoon by Art Hartz and Heroud Ramos The "eat my mask" crowd are killing people with their claim that mask wearing is "tyranny"
Wednesday, November 25, 2020Are You Participating in Greenback Friday? Black Friday has less to do with the holiday spirit than consumerism, capitalism and mindless shopping. In six weeks landfills with be brimming with its aftermath.
Friday, November 20, 2020Here's What Turkey Producers Don't Want You To Know The Bloomberg School's Center for a Livable Future and Arizona State's Biodesign Institute found fluoroquinolones in eight of 12 samples of feather meal in a multi-state study.
Friday, October 23, 2020Is Pharma Our Covid Savior? The Covid pandemic has given Pharma a temporary halo. Who cares about its prohibitively expensive drugs, the way it hides drug risks, the way that it "sells" diseases through TV ads and "symptom checkers" and the opioid epidemic it created? We need a vaccine and we need it now
Sunday, October 4, 2020At What Age is a President Too Old? Reagan was the oldest person to assume the U.S. presidency, a distinction he held until 2017, when Donald Trump was inaugurated
Friday, October 2, 2020Why a Vaccine Is Not the Answer to Covid A Covid vaccine is a fool's errand because live slaughter wet exotic wildlife markets will continue to brew new "covids."
Wednesday, September 16, 2020Humor--Who Says There's No Good News Hey--things are not as bleak as they seem. Listen to tonight's new cast
Friday, September 11, 2020The Voter That Big Pharma and Big Food Have Created How did we get into this political mess? As many as a quarter of the population is on happy pills. Two-thirds of the population is overweight--hooked on food. Millions are not angry but complacent. What me Worry?
Friday, August 7, 2020NRA Thrill Killers To cement its access to the old boys network in Congress, the NRA funds the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation, called a "charity" but "little more than the social directorate of the National Rifle Association," says the Tampa Bay Times. At a soiree thrown by the Foundation, lawmakers got to swoon over blowing away wild hogs in Myrtle Beach, S.C with silencers.
Friday, July 24, 2020Prepare For Millions More Covid Deaths Thanks to WHO Covid, along with SARS, MERS, Ebola and HIV were all caused by exposure to and consumption of wild animals. But WHO says eating wild animals is a great source of food and jobs. Why develop a vaccine when wildlife markets virtually assure that new animal viruses will emerge requiring new vaccines?
Saturday, July 18, 2020Why the Wet Markets That Caused Covid Will Continue The WHO defends wet wildlife slaughter markets that include poached and exotic animals because they create "jobs."Get ready for more Covid pandemics if this one ends
Wednesday, July 15, 2020Death Penalty Hypocrisy--cartoon The federal government on Tuesday carried out its first execution in almost two decades
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