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...
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...
