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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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Saturday, April 19, 2025Mink Farmers Snivel Over Possible Legislation A bill in the Illinois legislature has mink farmers as nervous as their minks. The law is meant to address the well documented role of minks in zoonotic pandemics like Covid and the ongoing bird flu (H5N1) and would disclose locations.
Thursday, April 10, 2025To Sell Drugs, Big Pharma Embraces Woke Euphemisms In the richest country in the world people want to be sick thanks to Pharma. Would-be activists now believe they are "living with"conditions barely acknowledged a few years ago
Wednesday, April 9, 2025Cartoons About Man's Best Friend Most of us love dogs even though they sometimes see us at our worst
Thursday, March 27, 2025Six Trends This Reporter Hates How many times have you begun to read an article about fatigue or high blood pressure or insomnia or obesity and suddenly it segues into the "surprising" fact that a supplement or diet is your answer?
Saturday, March 22, 2025Here The Right-To-Life and Animal Rights Movements Agree It has been said you cannot make someone see something when their paycheck depends on not seeing it. The corollary is you can't make someone see something when their appetite or lifestyle is dependent on it.
Wednesday, March 5, 2025If Obesity Is a Disease..So Is Smoking! There is so much money in the new fat drugs that compounding pharmacies are suing drugmakers and vice verse while bariatric surgeons fume over lost business.
Tuesday, March 4, 2025Thoughts and Warnings On Fat Tuesday from a Former Local First of all, Fat Tuesday revelry ends promptly at midnight not when the sun comes up on Ash Wednesday. It is a religious holiday preceding Lent. Many Yankees wish they knew this after police interventions.
Sunday, March 2, 2025Are State Departments of Natural Resources Next on the Cutting Block? Thanks to Trump administration budget cuts at the United States Agency for International Development, the Department of Education, the National Parks Service, proposed cuts at the National Institutes of Health and more, "Who will they come for next?" has become a refrain--especially from those with affected jobs.
Friday, February 14, 20258 Reasons to Fear the Revival of Bone Drugs: Fool Us Twice? Drugmakers are reviving the marketing of anti-fracture bone drugs for the same reason they are reviving the "disease" of menopause: A new generation of women is unaware of previous harms and can be tapped.
Thursday, February 6, 2025Humor--Going to Super Bowl or Mardi Gras? Take These Tips When a Yankee tries to fit in during a trip to New Orleans, the first bump you will encounter is the use of "yall." It is ubiquitous, obligatory and its absence quickly identifies you as a non-local.
Thursday, January 23, 2025Confessions of a Radio Producer Like podcasts and websites, radio would not exist without sponsors. Yet when ads become obnoxious, insulting or too frequent""who remembers "it slices, it dices:?--they can turn listeners against the content more than the content itself.
Tuesday, January 21, 2025Corporate Cannibalism: Giants Clash Over Their Profits Has anyone wondered what the GLP-1 agonist fat drugs are doing to Big Food profits? After all, the major reason Americans are gigantic is Big Food ingredients, marketing and availability. (Need proof? Look at photos of Americans 20 years ago""they had cheekbones, waistlines and could walk not waddle.)
Sunday, January 12, 2025Is a Conservative Just A Liberal Who Was Mugged Yesterday? Is a Conservative Just A Liberal Who Was Mugged Yesterday? Or liberal just a conservative who was discriminated against yesterday?
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.
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