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On this page you’ll find the archives of my first personal blog where I wrote about health reporting and how big pharma manipulates media. I’ve moved 76 of the posts from the original blogsite. Sadly, I couldn’t copy the reader’s comments. I did keep the original post dates to provide better context. NOTE: Depending on [...] Oh, sweet-mother-of-darkness. I need a pill. Back in October I blogged about the pending avian flu pandemic, the Spanish flu catastrophe of 1918 and projected, tongue-in-cheek, the following: “If you pick up any newspaper, turn on any TV news in the next weeks and months, you’ll hear lots of breathless hyperbole about the imminent, [...] Today was one of those days that I will long remember. A day that I expect I’ll look back on in one year, five years, ten years and smile, “that was the day my life work got the traction it needed.” My life work, the work I feel compelled to do or die trying to [...] My fabulous colleague Alan Cassels (co-author of Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning us all into Patients and the “star” of my documentary Little Boy Blue) and I recently launched a website: MediaDoctor.ca (with the support of the Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society and funding from Industry Canada). Media [...] Another cogent argument from Dr. Ralph Faggotter of Healthy Skepticism in Australia. This was in response to a message I sent to our listserv letting everyone know that Oct 3 – 9 is Pandemic Flu Awareness Week (this is not a spoof but an earnest effort by a group of very concerned citizens to help [...] While so many of us in developed countries focus our attention on the not-yet-real avian flu pandemic, wringing our hands and federal budgets to figure out how to protect our own lives, the World Bank has some data to help put all of our concerns into a new perspective: From Water, Sanitation & Hygiene [...] It’s flu season again! Every year, right after back-to-school season, the government, media and pharma marketers kick the flu season into high gear. Since the small and unfortunate SARS “outbreak” that killed a few hundred people in North America two years ago, fear of a global flu pandemic has grown to well, pandemic proportions. But [...] Where to start? I think first, with a deep breath. Or two…or three… I just spent a week participating in a workshop with Lynne Twist, probably the most effective individual donor fundraising in the world today and, a woman who is the embodiment of integrity. I learned more about myself in her workshop than I [...] Here are some stats from a new book called “What Canadians Think about Almost Everything” 7 out of 10 Canadians are confident that within their life-time scientists will find a cure for cancer. 68% think that , within the next ten years, cancer will become something you live with, rather than something you die [...] When I worked at one of Canada’s leading environmental organizations, the application of something called the “precautionary principle” was part of daily life. The concept is simple: if you have enough scientific evidence to suggest that an action may cause harm to the environment or human health, but not enough evidence to assert the [...] I’ve been thinking about cancer a great deal this past few weeks. You know, Terry Fox Day and all the requisite activities and school homework related to raising money for cancer research that hits us every September. “Back to school” is synonymous with “cancer cure fundraising” when you have an elementary school-age kid in British [...] |
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