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Blog Entries by David Ropeik from 11/2011

Warning! Health Warnings May Be Hazardous to Your Health!

| Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics operates in the name of public health, but they fail to tell us the basics of what we need to know so we can make informed judgments about our health.

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RationING, or RationAL? Health Care Cost Control Falls Victim to Ideology

| Posted 11.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Melanoma, United Kingdom, Yervoy, Rationing, Health Insurance, Yervoy-National-Institute-for-Clinical-Excellence, Risk Perception, Berwick, Medicare, Natinal Health Service, Health Care, Republican, Politics News

To a patient, approving or disapproving coverage of health care based on a comparison of costs against benefits is rationing, in all that word's ugliest meanings. But to everyone suffering from the excessive cost of health care, this sort of decision making is rational.

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The Winds of Cimate Change (Fear) May be Shifting

| Posted 11.30.2011 | Green
Read More: Climate Change, Climate Change Severe Weather, Durban Climate Conference, Durban Conference, Global Warming, Green News

The evidence of the connection between climate change and extreme weather is starting to turn the threat into something we're more likely to worry more about.

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