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The Difficult Business of Assessing What’s True
[T]he battle over truth and over perception—what is true and what needs to be taken into account given its objective reality—are central to any attempts at social change. – Globalization and the...
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Republicans Say No to CDC Gun Violence Research
This article originally appeared in ProPublica After the Sandy Hook school shooting, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) was one of a few congressional Republicans who expressed a willingness to reconsider the...
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Say No To RAPAFLO!
A patient came to me recently with a prescription for Rapaflo, given to him by his urologist. He was told not to fill it until he reviewed the medication and its risks with me, his heart doctor. I told...
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Misunderstanding Altruism
If the dominant ideas of our times preach that individualism and selfishness are the truest nature of humans, then it only stands to reason that altruism should be derided as non-existent. Quite a few...
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Everywhere is War
Summer approaches and the stench of war is all around. Or, as the great Bob Marley put it, “Everywhere is war”. Start with the commemorations over a five-week span of Memorial Day, Flag Day and...
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Binge-Drinking Women Do Not Provoke Sexual Assault, Men Do
Binge drinking has been one of the justifications employed by apologists of rape and sexual assault to demonize or blame women, when in fact, to correlate binge drinking with rape generally amounts to...
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What Is to Be Done About ISIS?
If we want to do something about ISIS, then we need to ask ourselves what is causing ISIS in the first place? Otherwise we’re acting out of fear and ignorance; never a recipe for good results. If you...
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Post Suburban Speculation
The grass is green and mowed. The paint is white or beige. The sky is blue or gray. The forest is green or brown. The road is black. Suburbia is normal. That is the message that people who live in such...
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“Job Creators?”
Several years ago I visited a college class in which a student was doing a presentation about global warming. He used as an illustration of this the long-distance transport of salmon from Russia to the...
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A Hospital Too Far
Involuntary Manslaughter: Manslaughter resulting from the failure to perform a legal duty expressly required to safeguard human life, from the commission of an unlawful act not constituting a felony,...
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