Thomas Riggins
LATEST ARTICLES BY Thomas Riggins
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Opinion
Drug industry sells misleading ads – to doctors
September 2, 201182 percent of the ads placed by drug companies in medical journals violate the Food and Drug Administration's regulations on truthfulness and risk disclosure.
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Major food companies promote childhood obesity
August 18, 2011Governments should ban all advertising of unhealthy food aimed at children and indeed ban the production and sale of such foods entirely.
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Higher health spending means healthy people
August 11, 2011Some things that just seem obvious are often denied for devious political or personal reasons.
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Fracking: Are the regulators in bed with the oil and gas industry?
August 4, 2011The Environmental Protection Agency can't protect the environment because oil companies don't want it to. What the frack is that?
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Socialist U.S.? Science says it can happen
July 29, 2011A tiny minority can, by sticking to its principles, get the vast majority to come around to its way of thinking.
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It’s time for politically, and morally, correct meat
July 22, 2011Science has come up with a method by which we can satisfy our perverse desire to eat animal flesh without actually killing animals.
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Opinion
Are republics democratic?
July 18, 2011If we live in a country where some citizens' votes count more than others - in other words, in which "one person, one vote" is really not the standard - how can we claim to be...
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Children’s mental health and war
July 7, 2011Children of soldiers deployed in Iraq for longer times were more likely to have mental health issues than those whose parents were not.
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