Dieting Myths

When I was a GP I found that a good many of my patients wanted (and needed) to lose weight. I developed a dieting programme which worked well. My book Meat Causes Cancer – and other Food for Thought contains …

An Arctic war is coming

In a land of extremes, nowhere in the Arctic does the temperature oscillate more wildly than the tiny settlement of Fort Yukon in north-eastern Alaska. This village — of a few hundred residents belonging to the indigenous Gwich’in community, and …

Never Again

In a recent piece for the Washington Post, Ramesh Ponnuru wrote that “the public is not going to accept restrictive coronavirus mitigation measures again, regardless of what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or other public health authorities say.” Ponnuru …

A Fungal Non-Apocalypse

When an infectious disease researcher writes a research strategy section for a grant application, he/she begins by explaining why this particular disease is uniquely nasty and worthy of funding. Perhaps the disease has a high mortality rate, costs a lot …