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Two years ago, Ray Moynihan and David Henry at the University of Newcastle in Australia helped organize the world’s first international conference on disease mongering, the process of widening the ...

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The New York Times is being roasted online for “fear-mongering” over an article questioning whether it is “safe to go outside” this summer. “So you want to go outside — despite the heat, heavy ...

It's early Sunday morning but a round of contentious discussion began last night on Twitter when The New York Times posted today's Amy Harmon story on Golden Rice. This strain of rice has been ...

If you want a masterclass in how women’s health gets sidelined, look no further than hormonal conditions. Endometriosis takes an average of 10 years to be diagnosed. PCOS? Up to 70 percent of women go ...

“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning terror, unjustified terror which ...

The effort to sell security to the people of the US is based on stoking irrational fears, something Trump has taken to new extremes, but which Democrats are guilty of as well, explains Charles Derber, ...