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Martha Rosenberg is an award-winning investigative public health reporter who covers the food, drug and gun industries. Her first book, Born With A Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp The Public Health, is distributed by Random House. Rosenberg has appeared on CSPAN and NPR and lectured at medical schools and at the Mid-Manhattan Public Library.
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Thursday, January 9, 2025How Drugmakers Got a Quarter of US Women On Antidepressants A funny thing happened when drugmaker-funded "experts" began writing the "DSM." Your anxiety was "really" depression even though you felt fine. Your anxiety was a symptom of an underlying "depression" and you should replace your anxiety drug--which you took twice a year--with a drug you took every day
Saturday, January 4, 2025All The News That's Sh*t To Print Some of my colleagues still do beat reporting""interviewing witnesses and experts, going to police stations, even morgues and yes, leaving their swivel chairs. Sure it's a cold, thankless task, fraught with dead-ends and rudeness but that's where "news" comes from. At least it used to".
Wednesday, January 1, 2025A Look Back at New Orleans Violence Many people became aware of gun violence after massacres like Columbine, Virginia Tech and the many mass shootings that have occurred since 2007. However, if you lived in New Orleans in the late seventies, you were aware of the epidemic much earlier. In fact, New Orleans was way ahead of the rest of the nation when it came to gun violence.
Wednesday, December 25, 2024Big Pharma Thanks Prozac-Proponent Writing in the New York Times It is sad that sniveling, "poor me" diary excerpts like Szalavitz' have become the new journalism norm. And it is scary that such self-disclosing swill casts Big Pharma and its products as the public' mental health savoir.
Friday, December 20, 2024Thanks For the Transplant, Pig! Xenotransplantation in the News Is the pig kidney transplant announced this week a medical breakthrough or more of the clandestine GMO animal movement that largely operates under the public's radar?
Wednesday, December 18, 2024Is a Prescribing Psychiatrist Losing Sleep Over the Madison, WI Shooting? Did a doctor start Natalie Rupnow, the alleged Madison, WI shooter, on psych meds or switch her meds before her murders? Did she stop psych meds she had been on? In 20 years of reporting on gun violence I have rarely heard of a mass shooter whose violence wasn't connected to psych drugs.
Tuesday, December 17, 2024Merry Christmas From the Pharmaceutical Industry Drug ads "sell disease," encourage hypochondria, promote expensive drugs over cheaper and just as effective ones and reduce doctors to mere "order takers" as patient "self-diagnose" on the basis of TV ads.
Wednesday, December 11, 2024The #metoo Movement Did Not Help Sex Workers These women cannot scream sexual harassment because their profession itself is consent
Friday, December 6, 2024Anatomy is Prosperity When It Comes to Women: Menopause Pathologizing Returns Big Time It is said that "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"--and the women targeted by a new wave of menopause pathologizing are a case in point: Yes, you are suffering! Yes, you are a victim! Buy these pills and treatments--are the messages they are hearing and believing. Ka-ching.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024An Open Good Riddance Letter to FDA Commissioner Califf Pack your bags, Dude. We don't know if the new FDA Commish will be Martin A. Makary, MD, a Johns Hopkins surgeon, but we do know it won't be you. While most doctors and government officials at least pretend there is a firewall between them and drugmakers not you! "Many of us consult with the pharmaceutical industry," you told PBS.
Tuesday, November 26, 2024Who Is Greedier--the Left Or Right Wing? After the election progressive and conservative sites want your money more than ever
Thursday, November 21, 2024Writing A Memoir? Line Starts on the Left Go to the biography section of your local library or bookstore and you will see shelves overflowing with memoirs by people you have never heard of and people you never wanted to hear of. These "authors" have published their own diaries.
Friday, November 15, 2024Conversation With My Doctor About A New Drug (Fictitious) -2 minute read Henry Winkler who used to play the Fonz on Happy Days. says in his ads for the drugmaker Apellis that treatment for GA can't wait.
Thursday, November 14, 2024Big Pharma Wants to Get its Hands on Free Addiction Treatment Today, when alcoholics and drug addicts leave rehab, they are lifelong Pharma customers when a cup of coffee and a hug used to be enough to keep someone clean and sober.
Friday, November 8, 2024Lock Your Doors! Lab Monkeys Escape This week 43 primates escaped from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in Yemassee, South Carolina and residents were warned to keep their windows and doors locked.
Thursday, October 31, 2024New Diet Drugs Will Make Trains Run on Time and Your Adolescent Love You Not since the debut of statins has a drug class been so hyped for Wall Street. Every day this reporter receives "news" of how glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonists like Ozempic and Wegovy (in addition to causing weight loss and treating diabetes) will reduce your risk of stroke, dementia and uterine fibroids, your addiction to alcohol and opioids and your chanc
Thursday, October 17, 2024FDA Commissioner Shills for New Diet Drugs It would be hard to find a more conflict-of-interest and scandal sullied commissioner than Califf.
Saturday, October 5, 2024Beware Drug and Soap Ads Big Pharma and Big Chem have become primary advertisers--public health be damned
Thursday, October 3, 2024Are These Ads For Real? Having worked as a copywriter and creative director at ad agencies including McCann Erickson (now McCann Worldgroup), I am especially critical of advertising. Why? I know the tricks of the trade and how well they work--especially when there is a jingle involved. Music sells--just think of all the ask-your-doctor ads.
Saturday, September 28, 2024It's Not Your Imagination--Small Sites Have Been Snuffed by Big Tech While the Web began egalitarian--everyone could have their "say"-- today news sites and writers and reporters realize corporate America has taken it over. Specifically, the news and information sites many loved have been swallowed up by Big Tech--Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft--and their algorithms.
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