National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP)
Nature
nature:
control over
evolution in
manipulation of
teaching
Navigenics
Nazis, atrocities by
Neanderthals
Nestle, Marion
Neurodiversity
New England Courant
New England Journal of Medicine
Nexium
Nissen, Steven
Le Nouveau Monde (film)
Novella, Steven
nuclear accidents
nuclear power plants
nutrition, see alternative medicines; organic foods
Obama, Barack
and environmental issues
and health care
Offit, Paul A.:
Autism’s False Prophets
and Poling case
on vaccine safety
omega-3 fatty acids
Organic Consumers Association (OCA)
organic foods:
aims of
artificially ripened
and availability of arable land
costs of
distribution of
and environmental issues
and genetic engineering, see genetically modified food
and the Green Revolution
locally produced
and “natural” food
and population growth
and poverty-
preparation of
and radiation
research studies on
and small-scale farming
and social class
and starvation
total reliance on
USDA guidelines for
and Whole Foods
wider market for
organic soil, chemicals in
Ornish, Dean
Oz, Mehmet
Paarlberg, Robert, Starved for Science
pasteurization
Pauling, Linus
Peet, Amanda
Personal Genome Project
pertussis
Pfizer Corporation
pharmaceutical industry:
direct-to-consumer advertising by
greed in
profit motive in
and public trust
regulation of
research and development in
unrealistic expectations for
and vaccine court
see also specific companies
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
pharmacogenetics
placebo effect
Poling, Hannah
Poling, Jon
polio vaccines
polio virus, reconstruction of
polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
population growth
precautionary principle
progress:
and hope
scientific
Prohibition
Promethease
prostacyclin
public health:
and economic effects
and herd immunity
and prevention of disease
and public expectations
and vaccinations
Public Health Service
qi gong
quackery
questioning authority
quinine
Quinlan, Karen Ann
race:
and discrimination
and eugenics
and genetics
and human brain
and medicine
as social construct vs. scientific classification
Rath, Matthias
raw milk
Reagan, Nancy
Reagan, Ronald
recombinant DNA technology
Reiki
religion, and science
research:
accidents occurring during
double-blind studies
funding of
on middle-aged white men
motivation behind
open-source
opposition to
Rettberg, Randy
Reuben, Scott S.
Risch, Neil
Ristow, Michael
Rodewald, Lance
Rogers, Michael, Biohazard
Rolling Stone
Ronald, Pamela C.
Rose, Steven
rotavirus
Roundup (glyphosate)
Roush, Richard
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
rubella, vaccination for
Rudlick, Richard
Sabin, Albert
Safe Drinking Water Act
Safe Minds
Saint-John’s-wort
salmonella
Sampson, Wallace I.
Sanger, Frederick
Sanofi-Aventis
SARS
Satel, Sally
Saver, Jeffrey L.
saw palmetto
Sayre, Richard
Schering-Plough
Schwartz, Robert
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Science
science:
education in
and environmental issues
expectations for
and facts
fears of
and food supply
as “government tyranny,”
and greed
and life expectancy
open-source
politics vs.
and progress
public distrust of
and religion
and uncertainty
Science-Based Medicine
science fiction
scientific method
scientific revolution
Scientism
Scientist
scientists:
abuse of power by
bioterrorists
conspiracies assumed among
contradictory directives from
lying
Scripps Translational Science Institute, La Jolla
Seidel, Kathleen
September 11 attacks
Seroquel
Shapiro, Robert
Shelley, Mary
Shoemaker, Clifford
Sinclair, Upton, The Jungle
smallpox
Smith, Tara
snake oil
Snow. P., “Two Cultures,”
SNPs (single-nucleotide polymorphisms)
Spence, M. Anne
Star Trek (TV)
statin drugs
Stefansson, Kari
stem cell research
sterilization, forced
stinging nettle root
Straus, Stephen
streptokinase
Sun Microsystems
Super Bowl (TV)
sustainability
Svendsen, Lars, A Philosophy of Fear
Syngenta
synthetic biology
creating new life forms in
difficulty of regulation of
and DNA, see DNA, synthetic
and ethics
fears of
manipulating genes in
medical application of
new discipline of
open-source
rapid change in
risks of
and uncertainty
unwanted consequences of
Synthia
Talk About Curing Autism (TACA)
Tasmanian tiger
technology:
expectations of
fear of
and food supply
and magic
and Moore’s law
regulation of
taking control of our lives
TED (Technology, Education, Design) Conference
tetanus vaccinations
thalassemia
thalidomide
thimerosal
Thomas, Jim
Three Mile Island
>
thromboxane
Topol, Eric
career of
and Cleveland Clinic
“Failing the Public Health,”
and genetics
and Merck
and Vioxx-
tPA
transgenic crops, see genetically modified food
triphala
trust:
erosion of
lack of
Tshabalala-Msimang, Manto
tuberculosis
Tuskegee Experiment
23andme
ulcers
Unabomber Manifesto
uncertainty
Union Carbide, Bhopal, India
United States, education in
vaccinations
activists whipping up public opinion on
and autism
child’s age for
committee on safety of
declining rates of
economic impact of
effectiveness of
fear of
in history
and homeschooling
and immune system
and lawsuits
numbers of
and old diseases returning
risk-benefit analysis of
risks of
safety of
and thimerosal
universal
Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS)
vaccine court
vaccines, developed on demand
Vagelos, Roy
variolation
Varmus, Harold
Venter, J. Craig-
Viagra
VIGOR (Vioxx Gastrointestinal Outcomes Research) study-
Vilsack, Tom
Vioxx:
benefits of
as blockbuster drug
congressional hearings on
deaths attributed to
and FDA
and heart attacks
introduction of
and Merck-
promotion of
and public trust
studies of
taken off the market
viruses:
bringing the dead back to life
manipulation of
multiplying
research on
synthesis of
as ubiquitous
vitamin A
vitamin C,
vitamin D,
vitamin E
Voltaire
Vowell, Denise
Vytorin
Wakefield, Andrew
Walpole, Robert
warfarin
Washington, George
water, and agriculture
Watson, James
Waxman, Henry
Weeks, John
Weil, Andrew
Weldon, Dave
Wells, H. G.
Whole Foods Organics and you
Whole Foods Credo
whooping cough
Williams, Wendy M.
Wimmer, Eckard
Windaus, Adolf
Winfrey, Oprah
Wired
Wolpert, Lewis
Women’s Health Initiative
woolly mammoth
World Bank
World Food Program
World Health Organization (WHO), and vaccinations
X Prize Foundation
yellow fever
Zulu, Winstone
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michael Specter writes about science, technology, and global public health for the New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1998. Specter previously worked for the New York Times as a roving correspondent based in Rome, and before that as the Times’s Moscow bureau chief. He also served as national science reporter for the Washington Post as well as the New York bureau chief. He has twice received the Global Health Council’s Excellence in Media Award, first for his 2001 article about AIDS, “India’s Plague,” and secondly for his 2004 article “The Devastation,” about the health crisis in Russia and the country’s drastic demographic decline. In 2002, Specter received the Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for his article “Rethinking the Brain,” about the scientific basis of how we learn. His work has been included in numerous editions of The Best American Science Writing.
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