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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.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, February 8, 2021 Humor: 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:
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 3, 2021 Trump 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.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 31, 2021 New 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
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, January 25, 2021 Humor: 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.
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 16, 2021 White 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.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 6, 2021 Before 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.
SHARE Tuesday, December 29, 2020 Diet 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.")
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 25, 2020 Are 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.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, November 20, 2020 Here'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.
(10 comments) SHARE Friday, October 23, 2020 Is 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
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 4, 2020 At 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
(10 comments) SHARE Friday, October 2, 2020 Why 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."
SHARE Friday, September 11, 2020 The 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?
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, August 7, 2020 NRA 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.
(8 comments) SHARE Friday, July 24, 2020 Prepare 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?
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 18, 2020 Why 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
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 15, 2020 Death Penalty Hypocrisy--cartoon
The federal government on Tuesday carried out its first execution in almost two decades