Supplement Labels Should Be a Test Result
Why every supplement batch should be verified before sale
The Edge of Epidemiology
The Edge of Epidemiology looks at how human-driven systems create the conditions pathogens exploit, from ancient epidemics and colonial trade routes to occupational disease, modern outbreaks, and the data gaps that decide whose deaths become history.
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One in Six: The direct and indirect toll of Iceland’s 1783 Laki eruption
In June of 1783, a fissure broke open in southern Iceland and didn’t stop erupting for eight months.
The Rabies Denominator Problem
Clinical rabies is known to be fatal, but its human infection-fatality rate is still unknown
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The Prohibition of alcohol in early 20th century American history became the policy everyone knows failed.
Were the Dark Ages Really Dark? What Rome’s Collapse Made Harder to See
Across much of the West, thinner supply systems and weaker administration made bad years harder to survive.
The Public Health Evidence on Policing Is Stranger Than Either Side Admits
Policing is not one exposure. Homicide prevention, traffic stops, arrests, and police violence need separate causal accounting.
What Did Your Job Do to Your Body?
Occupational disease starts with a boring question that can change the whole diagnosis.
The Deaths We Can't Count
The ongoing Ebola outbreak in Central Africa had me wanting to better understand the answer to a question I hadn’t really considered beyond surface level curiosity: “how do researchers get anything resembling real-world data in the areas controlled by rebel forces?” How do they get an estimate of mortality when nobody is counting carefully?
The Flesh-Eating Fly America Thought It Had Beaten Is Back
The U.S. spent decades pushing New World screwworm south. Now the old livestock nightmare is moving back into view.