Thursday, September 24, 2026

Reports of racial disparities in COVID vaccines distort science

Out of context numbers and percentages only create public misunderstanding of the scientific results.

In rural America, resentment over COVID-19 shutdowns is colliding with rising case numbers

The early compassionate and cohesive community responses to COVID-19 quickly gave way to growing anger and compliance fatigue.

The darkest day of the year

"This tax bill is a moral and economic obscenity."

The U.S. Has always exploited immigrants during pandemics

As our country continues to grapple with the coronavirus, we must ensure that the health of everyone, including migrants, is prioritized and protected.

You Don’t Matter to Drugmakers

Big pharma executives are going all out to paint themselves as the good guys — just not to you.

Could Flint Fiasco Poison Austerity As Stupid, Wasteful & Cruel?

In severity of health damage, media staying power, and political indefensibility, the Flint, MI lead poisoning looms as a national turning point. What disgrace better spotlights Republican government poisoning one hundred thousand of its own people -- failed austerity at its worst? Rarely does stupid and wasteful, if not immoral, merge so dramatically.

Let’s get to the heart of the matter with biolabs and cows

How can we justify slaughtering cows to repair our hearts, when the consumption of cows is what weakens our hearts?
The headquarters campus of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Photo: Nrbelex at nl.en.wikipedia / CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

The first Black woman to lead the CDC will face an uphill battle in...

Dr. Erica Schwartz will be the first Black woman to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, promising that she will show “radical transparency and unwavering scientific integrity” in the role. But she faces political headwinds and practical challenges as she starts the job. Schwartz, who was confirmed Wednesday by the Senate to run […]

Atmospheric CO2 increasing 10x faster than in last 50,000 years, study finds

“We rely on the Southern Ocean to take up part of the carbon dioxide we emit, but rapidly increasing southerly winds weaken its ability to do so."

Global food crops also face Earth’s sixth great mass extinction

We need to get away from a focus on ‘feeding the world’ and move toward ‘nourishing the world.’