As I reported on Nov. 24, Gary Schwitzer and his HealthNewsReview.org will soon be back. In a post today, Schwitzer provides details of the project’s return. The most important detail concerns the project’s funding. Schwitzer received a two-year, $1.3 million grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, which supports journalist-activist Gary Taubes‘s Nutrition Science […]
BuzzFeed News hires Virginia Hughes to set up new five-person health and science desk.
Virginia Hughes, a contributing editor at Popular Science and Matter and the author of the Only Human blog at National Geographic, has been named science editor at BuzzFeed News, the news and entertainment site that claims a global audience of more than 150 million. Hughes will be establishing a health and science desk that will consist […]
Takedown: Helmuth at Slate rips into racist, sexist remarks by Nobel laureate James Watson.
James Watson and Francis Crick did not discover DNA. “Nuclein,” as DNA was initially called, was discovered in 1869 by a Swiss chemist named Friedrich Miescher. And they did not discover that DNA was what genes were made of; that was Oswald Avery and his colleagues MacLeod and McCarty at Rockefeller University. Watson and Crick […]
Detroit: Challenging elitism, racism, and obesity with a grocery store.
Toyoda Ruff’s son, a freshman honor student, had just crossed the 300-pound mark, and she was taking him to a children’s weight-loss clinic. At 270 pounds, her husband wanted to lose weight, too. And Toyoda wanted to change the way she ate. Could the answer be the new Whole Foods that had just opened in […]
Gary Schwitzer and HealthNewsReview.org are baaaaack!
I’m happy to report breaking news from a good friend of the Tracker, Gary Schwitzer, who for years has rivaled (more likely, exceeded!) the Tracker in the ferocity with which he attacks bad medical reporting. From his email this morning: I can’t quite divulge details yet, but after 17 months with no funding for this […]
To dream the improbable dream: MIT’s football team is undefeated!
You’re forgiven if you didn’t know that MIT has a football team. When I went to school there, it didn’t. Not only does it have a football team–it has a very successful one. The MIT Engineers were undefeated this season, and the team won its first playoff game in Bangor, Me. Saturday with two breathtaking […]