Tag: Public health
Opioid crisis shows partnering with industry can be bad for public...
Jonathan H. Marks, Pennsylvania State University
“Show me the bodies!” someone demanded at the end of my lecture a few years ago.
As a scholar of...
Paid family leave is an investment in public health, not a...
Darby Saxbe, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Most Americans – on both sides of the political aisle –...
Fossil fuels are bad for your health and harmful in many...
Noel Healy, Salem State University; Jennie C. Stephens, Northeastern University, and Stephanie Malin, Colorado State University
Many Democratic lawmakers aim to pass a Green New...
Wildfire smoke is becoming a nationwide health threat
Richard E. Peltier, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The impacts of recent forest fires in California reach well beyond the burned areas. Smoke from the Camp...
3 ethical reasons for vaccinating your children
Joel Michael Reynolds, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Across the country, billboards are popping up suggesting that vaccines can kill children, when the science behind vaccination...
Does Monsanto’s Roundup cause cancer? Trial highlights the difficulty of proving...
Richard G. "Bugs" Stevens, University of Connecticut
Does glyphosate, the active ingredient in the widely used weedkiller Roundup, cause non-Hodgkin lymphoma? This question is at...
The public health benefits of adding offshore wind to the grid
Jonathan Buonocore, Harvard University
New plans to build two commercial offshore wind farms near the Massachusetts and Rhode Island coasts have sparked a lot of...
The urgency of curbing pollution from ships, explained
James J. Winebrake, Rochester Institute of Technology and James J Corbett, University of Delaware
The International Maritime Organization, a United Nations agency that regulates global...
EXPLORING NATURE
From ancient texts to modern practices, Daoism provides a profound framework...
Michael Naparstek, University of Tennessee
Daoism, China’s indigenous religion, is one of the country’s five officially recognized religions today....
