How Pink Ribbon Culture Harms Breast Cancer Patients and Survivors
By celebrating only survivors and survivorhood, it limits the range of emotions that women who have had breast…
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Why We’re Losing the War on Addiction
Proponents of the disease model of addiction, by imposing a permanent self-label of “alcoholic” or “addict” and failing…
A World Tour of Sugary Taxes
Beyond soda, some countries have taxed foods including pudding and ice cream. The results are promising. By Francie…
People Are Living Longer, but Life Expectancy Remains Complicated
A new study highlights fewer HIV/AIDS deaths in Africa, more deaths from war, and a strong, if imperfect,…
Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Depression
A massive Danish study is makingwaves for establishing a link between hormonal birth control use and depression. More…
Does Eating Factory-Farmed Meat Put One on Par With Anti-Vaxxers?
Both are individual choices made in defiance of sound science and common sense, and both put the rest…
Facebook Can’t Rescue Our Underfunded Science
Mark Zuckerberg’s $3 billion donation is generous, but philanthropy won’t compensate for our government’s failures. By Mike White…
Zika Reminds Us That Climate Change Is a Women’s Rights Issue
The swift spread of the Zika virus has thrown into sharp relief women’s vulnerability to ecological crisis. By…
Obesity Probably Didn’t Evolve to Protect Us From Famine
Researchers use genetics to test the “thrifty gene hypothesis” and find it lacking. By Nathan Collins (Photo: Justin…
The Classist Implications of Life Extension Science
The life expectancy gap between rich and poor is already wide, but recent advances in biotechnology should force…