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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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Sunday, October 17, 2021Where Is Cancel Culture When You Need It? Ted Nugent Appears at Wisconsin State Hearings Ted Nugent's racist remarks got him banned from performing in Muskegon, Michigan, Fort Knox and removed from Long Island's "Back the Blue Demonstration" performing line-up just last year. But he spoke at the Wisconsin legislature this week
Wednesday, October 6, 2021The Sleazy Ways AbbVie Made Humira a Best Selling Drug If you're like most people, you never heard of the prescription drug Humira until 2013. That's when Abbott Laboratories spun off AbbVie, to aggressively market the rheumatoid arthritis (RA) drug which went on to become the top selling drug by 2019.
Friday, October 1, 2021Baby Food Alert: Interview With Asian-Based Food Processing Consultant "We are now living in an entirely anthropologically re-engineered paradigm and one needs an unnatural degree of self-discipline to maintain a normal weight and stay healthy," says this interviewee.
Monday, September 27, 2021If You Like GMOs, You Love This New Plant Research GMO crops have posed hazards in the past such as gene flow to non-altered/non-GMO plants and loss of biodiversity
Thursday, September 23, 2021While the Nation Is Watching Covid, Look What Drug Makers Are Doing While no one is looking, drug makers have raised medication prices though they promised they wouldn't. They have stopped their boycott against Facebook. And they have increased their sleazy, manipulative marketing to kids. Here are the details.
Saturday, September 18, 2021Hidden Reasons (Beyond Diet and Lack of Exercise) Why Americans Have Become Fat In 1974, an experiment was done on several hundred Navy recruits to see if they would gain weight on antibiotics and, after only seven weeks, they did.
Monday, September 13, 2021Is Obesity the New Smoking? In the 1960s, 42 percent of Americans smoked. Ubiquitous cigarette ads, eventually banned in the US, promised that smoking made men more masculine and women sexier and thinner. Plus cigarettes tasted good. Now, in 2021, only 14 of the US population smokes but 42 percent of the population is obese. Have people just switched rooms on the Titanic? Is obesity the new smoking?
Friday, September 10, 2021Have Drug Makers Created A Generation of Hypochondriacs? younger generations have grown up under nonstop drug industry spin which has elevated normal facets of the human psyche-blue moods, mood swings, growing up, "nerves," attention problems-"to mental illness."
Tuesday, August 31, 2021How Animal Rights, Once a Progressive Stepchild, Became a Movement After a while, activists gave up the ineffectual "supply side" tactic of beseeching hostile lawmakers to regulate animal operations in their state for the more leveraged "demand side" -- going directly to food outlets and their customers with proof of grisly deeds. Once the McDonald's, Wendy's, KFCs and Burger Kings of the world were outed as buying and serving abused animals things began to change".
Friday, August 27, 2021Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right in Afghanistan Who remembers how US troops were told to ignore the institutionalized rape/sexual slavery of little boys by Afghan security forces-- the so-called "good guys"? A tradition called Bacha bazi?
Saturday, August 21, 2021Remembering Tom T. Hall-the storyteller Everyone remembers Hall's "I like beer," a paean to the world's most down-to-earth alcoholic beverage which explains that "Whiskey's too rough, Champagne costs too much, vodka puts my mouth in gear" as an Oktoberfest-like chorus in the background intones "He likes beer."
Tuesday, August 17, 2021Humor: Starbucks Are Filling Up Again-Is That a Good Thing? How did Starbucks convince Americans that happy hour should be wired, not wasted, and that they have a Macchiato deficiency that requires five dollars and 500 calories a day to treat?
Friday, August 13, 2021Lab Leak Theory Is An Insult To Scientific Intelligence According to Live Science, COVID-19 is hardly the only disease to jump species from animals to humans. Pandemics from influenza to AIDS to the prehistoric plagues came from animal hosts, as did Ebola and Lym
Friday, August 6, 2021The Hidden Face of Animal Disease Research Animal disease research in government or government-funded labs often flies under the public radar and it goes way beyond COVID-19 questions.
Sunday, July 18, 2021Five-Year-Olds With Breasts? Precocious Puberty Is Worsening and Reasons Are Clear No scientists dispute that precocious or early-onset puberty is on the rise but reasons are not clear. Is it bad diets and lack of exercise? Is it soft drinks themselves, even when not linked to obesity? Is it the common chemicals known as endocrine disrupters that exert estrogen-like effects? Is it the many legal, unlabeled hormones used in the U.S. to fatten livestock?
Monday, July 12, 2021Cartoon: Confession of a Politician This is why they use euphemisms and never come out and say what they mean
Tuesday, June 29, 2021Cartoon: Who Remembers Travel? Will the travel industry, crushed by violence, wars, disease outbreaks, environmental threats and climate change ever come back?
Saturday, June 19, 2021Humor: With Covid Shutdowns Over Can Class Reunions Be Far Off? Many at the class reunion seem to have done so well financially, including sending their children to college, that they are on second, soul-nourishing careers like crafts and fiber art, teaching yoga, giving pet training classes and "life coaching."
Sunday, June 13, 2021A Criminal For Helping a Suffering animal? Interview with Activist Wayne Hsiung At Petaluma Poultry, Hsiung said dozens of deputies and a helicopter arrived on scene to arrest the activists. Members of DxE internationally face felony counts for burglary, racketeering, and domestic terrorism, among other charges.
Tuesday, June 8, 2021Graphic Novel Review: Fictional Father Career ambition, LGBT romance, addiction, family dysfunction, money, the art world--they are all themes found in this tragi-comedic new graphic novel
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