During the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, much criticism was leveled at World Health Organization officials, accusing their response of being too heavily influenced by the pharmaceutical industry. But according to a panel of indepen…
The 1998 study linking the MMR vaccine to autism has been utterly debunked. So 13 years later, how many lives have been lost and how much money has been wasted treating the preventable illnesses that fear-mongering led to? Here…
With the latest round of global climate change talks set to begin this week in Cancun, Mexico, the assembled delegates should be thankful they’re not meeting in, say, Beijing or New Delhi. Those two cities are tied at the top o…
Even if the fake drug you buy on the Web doesn’t kill or even hurt you, the transaction itself can reveal your financial and medical information to questionable (at best) characters. Protecting yourself starts with understandin…