by Mark Poznansky | Jan 5, 2021 | Health, Politics/Policy
The New Medicines of Synthetic Biology The old expression “speed kills” is not always true. As we live through the COVID-19 pandemic and the current vaccination schedules, it becomes equally true that “speed heals.” The noted author and columnist Thomas Friedman said...
by Mark Poznansky | Nov 30, 2020 | Health, Politics/Policy
When Freedom Goes Berserk In 1917, the imminent American Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendel Holmes wrote in a majority opinion, “speech that is dangerous and false is not protected” under the first amendment of the United States Constitution. This is, of course,...
by Mark Poznansky | Nov 16, 2020 | Environment, Health, Politics/Policy
There’s A War on Science…And It’s Complicated In a sense, there are two wars going on against science. The first, exemplified by Trump and his co-conspirators, is when science is accepted only when it suits political objectives and rejected when it collides with...
by Mark Poznansky | Oct 26, 2020 | Environment, Health, Politics/Policy
Climate Change Is Real…And Manmade If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, smells like a duck and tastes like a duck, it is not probably a duck: it is a duck. Just as that duck was real, so too is the fact that climate change and global warming are real and...
by Mark Poznansky | Oct 13, 2020 | Environment, Food, Health, Politics/Policy
The Forces Of Misinformation Are Doing Us Damage As reported in a recent issue of Scientific American, in many respects, the prominence of misinformation is producing a new world disorder. If you think about it for a moment, you begin to realise that we are all...
