Dutch farmers just say no to antibiotics for livestock.
Communities of Not
On the strange hostility that grows in communities built around abstinence.
How we can stop antibiotic resistance
It’s been dubbed “the end of modern medicine”. BBC Future asked experts to explain how we might avoid the worst effects of antibiotic resistance – a grand challenge of our age.
Gonorrhea Is Becoming Untreatable, U.N. Health Officials Warn
The World Health Organization released new treatment guidelines that acknowledge an entire class of antibiotics is now all but useless against the sexually transmitted disease.
Acting ethically in an imperfect world
Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are […]
Comment on “Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: evidence from Sweden”
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Norway is the first country in the world to commit to zero deforestation
'This is an important victory in the fight to protect the rainforest'
I believed we would face an antibiotics apocalypse - until now | Richard James
For decades my research showed the dangers of new strains of resistance, and this week we heard of another threat. But there’s been a breakthrough
Additional evidence on the effects of banning the purchase of sex on cases of rape in Sweden
I discuss (Ciacci J Popul Econ 37:37 2024) and provide additional results of a regression discontinuity in time model showing that the result that the ban affected cases of rape is not robust.
Opinion | How to Win a War on Drugs (Published 2017)
Portugal treats addiction as a disease, not a crime.
CDC Stopped Monitoring Parasite Now Causing Explosive Diarrhea Across The Country
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Avoidable mortality, risk factors and policies for tackling noncommunicable diseases – leveraging data for impact: monitoring commitments in the WHO European Region ahead of the Fourth United Nations High-Level Meeting
The report notes that, in order to tackle NCDs and address the commercial, social, environmental and digital determinants of health, there is a need for accelerated multisectoral whole-of-government and whole-of-society action, integrated policies, enhanced preventive measures and strengthened health systems.
Do Drunk Mice Sire Weird-Looking Offspring? – Quentin André
A recent piece in The Atlantic argues fathers-to-be should abstain from alcohol when trying to conceive. The science that underpins this recommendation has some issues.
Click, clack, moo: cows that type
When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want
The Tragedy of the Commons
The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.
Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint
If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.
🥬 Still Avoid the Lettuce: What FDA's Walk-Back Does and Doesn't Mean | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
Bottom Line Up Front: despite confused reporting and less than clear statements from FDA, Taylor Foods lettuce remains implicated in the Cyc