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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, 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.
Tuesday, September 24, 2024How Big Food and Big Pharma Work Together These industries work together--just look at the ads
Thursday, September 19, 2024Scent Beads, Drier Sheets and Laundry Additives Oh My! The "scent beads" and "smell sells" coming from Big Chem are far from harmless to humans and the environment. Please read and share
Friday, September 13, 2024Does a Writer Still Make More Than a Waiter? It has not been too long since an ad in the local Chicago paper asked in its headline "Waiter or Writer?" Waiter had been crossed out and replaced with writer. The ad was for a school that would teach you to be a writer. The hook, of course, was if you have writing talent and something to say, you could be a paid writer instead of part of a restaurant's (low-wage) waitstaff.
Sunday, September 8, 2024Remembering the Salmonella King as Deaths Continue As early as 1977, neighbors who lived near egg baron Austin "Jack" DeCoster's huge egg operation in Turner, Maine, began complaining about the lesser mealworm beetles that infested their homes. But soon he earned his crown as "salmonella king."
Tuesday, August 20, 2024Another "Boner" From Drug Makers Ever since the massive Women's Health Initiative (WHI) found, 22 years ago, that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) increased the risk of heart attacks by 29 percent, breast cancer by 26 percent, stroke by 41 percent and doubled the risk of blood clots, drug makers have sought a replacement for its lucrative franchise.
Wednesday, August 14, 2024JAMA Why Did You Publish This Drug Maker Funded "Research" This medical journal published drug maker marketing as "news."
Tuesday, July 23, 2024You Stink Say Personal Care Ads in Desperate Marketing Even if you are using deodorant on "those places," your body stinks all over say some ads. If you stink all over, you are probably contaminating your sofa, chairs and whole house with "odor transfer" say other ads. If you launder your clothes, they likely still "stink" say more manipulative and unethical ads.
Saturday, July 20, 2024Yes, Cows Are Eating S__t ...and Tempting Another Pandemic According to University of Nebraska Medical Center, chicken litter "is a mixture of chicken feces, feathers and bedding materials"sweeped up from chicken coops, and typically used as a fertilizer and as feed for cattle." Yes, cows are eating sh_t.
Sunday, May 26, 2024An All Hamburger Diet? Not a Good Idea This Actor/Director Said What if you ate nothing but McDonald's three times a day for a month, neglecting no items? It was the shocking but funny premise of the 2004 movie, Super-Size Me, directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock who recently died from cancer. The actor/director was only 53.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024Could This Be the New Covid? Crowded and unsanitary animal venues whether U.S. factory farms or overseas wet markets are the source of zoonotic pandemics which people only seem to notice when humans start dying.
Sunday, March 10, 2024The Fonz Is Pimping For Big Pharma People of a certain age will remember the sitcom Happy Days and its leather jacket-clad mascot, "the Fonz." Aloof and ever-cynical, the Fonz epitomized late 1970's cool. But flash forward to today and the Fonz (who was played by the actor Henry Winkler) is now an uber earnest drug pitchman, pimping for Big Pharma.
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