Murder Pays
If you're a drug manufacturer. You may have heard that Eli Lilly has agreed to pay a total of $1.42 billion to resolve criminal and civil charges related to its marketing of the antipsychotic drug...
View ArticleToday in Iraq and Afghanistan
No, the war is not over and no, we didn't win. As for the new administration's vow to escalate the U.S. military effort in Afghanistan, that may not be such a good idea after all. Since the corporate...
View ArticleToday in Iraq and Afghanistan
As I have been doing regularly on Sunday's, here is a repost from Iraq Today. We're getting a mellow view of yesterday's elections from the corporate media, bathed in golden light, but it isn't...
View ArticleRacist NY Post cartoon depicts Obama as chimp, promotes assassination
I don't really have anything to add to this, but I felt I should draw it to people's attention. CBS News reproduces the cartoon. It depicts two police officers who have just shot dead a chimpanzee....
View ArticleToday in Iraq and Afghanistan
It's been difficult lately to get Kossacks' attention about Iraq, in particular, but I want you to know that the situation in Iraq is still far less stable, more violent, and more perilous than it is...
View ArticleBizarro World
Reed Abelson in the NYT is aghast at the prospect of a government sponsored health plan open to all. (Excerpt and comment below the fold.)
View ArticleHealth care reform and economic stability
Diane Rowland in NEJM (and yes, ya'll get to read it, bless 'em, because they're making material relevant to public affairs open access) describes the impact of the recession on the percentage of...
View ArticleExcrement hits ventilator in Iraq. Is anybody paying attention?
As usual, I'm reposting my Sunday Iraq Today roundup here. Kossacks have largely lost interest in Iraq, but we should start paying attention again: there are indications that Gen. Petraeus's strategy...
View ArticleToday in Iraq: Pogrom Against Homosexuals
Yes, I'm still crossposting my Sunday Iraq Today posts here. I know Iraq no longer seems as salient as it once was, but it ain't going away. Very bad news today for those who thought the removal of...
View ArticleThe Real killer pandemics, and what to do about them
One of the concerns of public health is indeed preparing for and responding to infectious disease outbreaks and epidemics. However, I fear that we at Kos have put far too much emphasis on this small...
View ArticleThe Only Actual Cause of Death . . .
... and what to do about it.It is a staple in introductory public health courses to present the leading causes of death as recorded on death certificates -- heart disease, cancer, stroke, etc. -- next...
View ArticleDaily Kos has screwed the pooch on health coverage
Public health is the diverse, multidisciplinary field of study and action that considers human health from the point of view of populations, rather than individuals. The biomedical paradigm locates...
View ArticleThe Fascistic Plot to Seize Absolute World Domination
through the little known CER (and you thought the Trilateral Commission was ruling the world).Since DemFromCT continues to be mired in his pathological influenza obssession, it appears that it is up to...
View ArticleShark Attack!
If you are a regular viewer of TV News, a reader of newspapers, or a regular reader of Daily Kos, you will be surprised to learn that among the many afflictions of humanity, influenza is well down the...
View ArticleWhy you should stop worrying about influenza
In the United States, every year, more than 2.4 million people die. That is a death rate of 810.4/100,000 population, in other words about .8%. In a typical year, a shade under 60,000 of these deaths...
View ArticleThe Social Amplification of Risk
It isn't news that I'm interested in why people worry about unlikely event A more than they worry about more likely event B, when B may be just as bad or even worse than A. A few days ago I ran a...
View ArticleIt's much, much weirder than you thought
"President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse."So says former president of...
View ArticleIraq and Afghanistan Today
I'm sad to say that Kossacks in general seem to have lost interest in the wars in the Iraq and Afghanistan. No, we haven't "won" yet, and Iraq is not over. I am once again reposting my Sunday Iraq...
View ArticleThe Grim Reapublicker
The "Christian" right denies a whole lot about reality, including evolution, cosmology, the unsustainability of our current form of industrial civilization, the intrinsic nature and variety of human...
View ArticleA leading scientific theory disproved
I don't know how many of you are familiar with Peak Wingnut Theory, but essentially, as the likelihood of an Obama victory became clear, John Cole proposed that:Sure, there is still lots going on- the...
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