by Mark Poznansky | Jan 18, 2021 | Environment, Health, Politics/Policy
Nine Commandments To Save Humanity (From Climate Change) Now that we are close to putting two terrible viruses that have been attacking mankind behind us (Donald Trump and COVID-19), we can get back to the business of correcting the most serious existential threat...
by Mark Poznansky | Jan 12, 2021 | Environment, Food, Health
The Future Of Food In the broad light of day, we have to face some pretty fundamental and global questions about the security of the world’s food supply. They may not seem so obvious to most of us who currently live in the presence of plenty. Make no mistake and be...
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...
